It's time to vote for the Detroit Free Press Boys Prep Athlete of the Week for May 18-24. This week's poll features four players, one from track and field and three from baseball. Voting will be ...

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 today don’t need perfect parents, perfect systems, or perfect answers. They just need people willing to listen to them and who choose to care about them, even when it’s complicated.

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 ...