Education Week
Okay, a quick qualification: it was to a Canadian reporter, part of the Globe and Mail mega-project now playing out. Definitely worth a read. Is it possible no U.S. reporter has ever asked him about the gender gaps?
In Chicago, Duncan was surrounded by good research on the issue from the Consortium on Chicago School Research (that's where the term "genderization of race" first appeared). The college prep high schools there are desperately short on guys. The boys troubles are hard to miss...