Our readers will have a say in who is named our High School Boys Lacrosse Player of the Year for 2025. Voting ends at 8 pm on Saturday, July 5.

Parents around the world used to have a pronounced preference for sons. In many cultures boys traditionally inherit both the family’s name and its wealth. Indeed, sons were considered so much ...

Girls have been outperforming boys in American schools for decades, from elementary school through college. But the gender gap in education starts even earlier: Boys enter kindergarten less ...

Boys tend to start kindergarten less prepared, academically and behaviorally, than girls — and it can affect their achievement in the long term. To close the gap, one idea already in use by some ...