Reports of a "boy crisis" in America's classrooms make for alarming headlines. But a new analysis of long-term trends finds that, at least by national testing standards, boys are doing better than ever by most measures -- if, that is, they are white and privileged.

It's just that girls, too, are doing better than ever in school, sometimes even better than boys.

And that, argues Sara Mead, the author of a study titled "The Truth About Boys and Girls," goes a long way toward explaining a battle of the sexes among education experts, many of whom have busied themselves in the last few years with how schools can change to adapt teaching methods to better serve boys...

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