Peg Tyre discusses her book, *The Trouble with Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents and Educators Must Do*. The book covers why boys are falling behind girls' achievement in school and not attending college in the same numbers.
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Peg Tyre is a former senior writer at *Newsweek*, where she won a Clarion Award, a National Headliner Award, and a National Education Writers Association Award for her writing on this subject. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.