There are many parents of boys who are wandering why they are doing so poorly at school. A point that is often lost is that the problem is not new, what is extremely worrying is that so little has been done over the past 12 years. The really frightening thing is that governments and educational bodies have had so long to do something but the have done so little. The problem remains as large as ever and very few solutions have been developed or tried.

This article from the US and it is over 4 years old. Newsweek: The trouble with Boys.