Whitmire, a former editorial writer for USA Today and a journalist who has written commentaries for publications including U.S. News, The Washington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The New Republic, will speak at Fenn on October 26 at 7 p.m.
To write his book Why Boys Fail (Amacon, 2010), Whitmire drew on data, interviews, case studies, and straight-forward analysis to document the problem of boys falling behind in school and never catching up, and to uncover the real reason for the academic slide: boys just don't have the reading and writing skills to keep up.
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The event is free and open to the public. For more information, go to www.fenn.org, or contact the School, which is at 516 Monument Street in Concord, at 978-369-5800.
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