These days it’s impossible to avoid the avalanche of evidence about young men falling behind in America. Within the last month, the New York Times laid out the dismal data, the Wall Street Journal noted the rising misogyny among boys and Bloomberg documented their rising anger.

One thing you won’t read about the boys dilemma, this month or any other month: serious solutions to the problem.

After a couple of decades as an education reporter, my first book was "Why Boys Fail." That was in 2011, one of several books written at the time about boys falling behind. Back then, it appeared we were on the cusp of finally doing something about it.

But apparently not. Fourteen years later, all we have are more studies and op-eds. No solutions. Why? The boys........

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