The Boy Problem: Educating Boys in Urban America, 1870-1970 (Hardcover)

Introduction
1. Schooling the "Dangerous Classes": Reforming Boys in Nineteenth-Century America
2. The Nature of Boy Nature: Education and Recreation for Masculinity
3. The Perils of Public Education: Truants, Underachievers, and School Leavers
4. Bad or Backward? Gender and the Genesis of Special Education
5. "The Boys' Own Story": "The Boys' Own Story"
6. Black Boys and Native Sons: Race, Delinquency, and Schooling in the Urban North
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index