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| '''Leonard Sax''' is an American ] and family physician. He is the author of ''Why Gender Matters'' (Doubleday, 2005) and |
'''Leonard Sax''' is an American ] and family physician. He is best known as the author of two books for parents: ''Why Gender Matters'' (Doubleday, 2005) and ''Boys Adrift'' (Basic Books, 2007). He is also founder and executive director of the . | ||
| Leonard Sax's views on ] are controversial <ref> http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/health&id=6419171 </ref> and have received both praise and criticism. | |||
| ==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
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| In a review in the New York Times published June 11, 2006, ] calls Dr. Sax's first book Why Gender Matters "a lucid guide to male and female brain differences."<ref>http://select.nytimes.com/2006/06/11/opinion/11brooks.html?scp=3&sq=Gender+gap&st=nyt</ref> | In a review in the New York Times published June 11, 2006, ] calls Dr. Sax's first book Why Gender Matters "a lucid guide to male and female brain differences."<ref>http://select.nytimes.com/2006/06/11/opinion/11brooks.html?scp=3&sq=Gender+gap&st=nyt</ref> | ||
| Dr. Sax's second book Boys Adrift was reviewed by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in December 2007. According to the review, Boys Adrift is "powerfully and persuasively presented," and provides "excellent and informative references and information." |
Dr. Sax's second book Boys Adrift was reviewed by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in December 2007. According to the review, Boys Adrift is "powerfully and persuasively presented," and provides "excellent and informative references and information." <ref>http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/extract/298/22/2684</ref> | ||
| After his '''' op-ed about the growing proportion of unmotivated boys -- what Leonard Sax calls the "Failure to Launch" phenomenon -- The ''Washington Post'' invited Dr. Sax to host a one-hour on-line chat, which broke all previous records for the Washington Post: they shut the system down after receiving 395 posts.<ref></ref> | After his '''' op-ed about the growing proportion of unmotivated boys -- what Leonard Sax calls the "Failure to Launch" phenomenon -- The ''Washington Post'' invited Dr. Sax to host a one-hour on-line chat, which broke all previous records for the Washington Post: they shut the system down after receiving 395 posts.<ref></ref> | ||
| In introducing Dr. Sax as a keynote speaker for a 2008 district-wide conference of the York Region District School Board in Ontario, educator Michael Halfin said that “Dr. Sax is the Al Gore of the gender crisis. He has EDUCATED us about the nature and scope of the problem. He has WARNED us about the consequences of doing nothing. And he has INSPIRED us to take action in our schools and in our communities.” | |||
| ==Criticism== | ==Criticism== | ||
| ], a professor of ] and ] at the ], has questioned on his blog, ], some of the claims which Leonard Sax has made in the past |
], a professor of ] and ] at the ], has questioned on his blog, ], some of the claims which Leonard Sax has made in the past regarding sex differences in sensory acuity and emotional processing, particularly on some of Leonard Sax's web sites . Sax's responses can be accessed at . | ||
| In March 2008, New York Times Magazine published a lengthy piece |
In March 2008, the Sunday New York Times Magazine published a lengthy piece critical of single-sex education and of Leonard Sax's work as an advocate for single-sex education . The article concludes by asserting that single-sex education, and the notion of gender differences in learning, "is at odds with one of the most foundational principles of America’s public schools." Leonard Sax responds on the NASSPE website that this article presents a biased view of single-sex education, and that the article makes many factual mistakes, beginning with Sax's hair color. | ||
| ==National and international media== | ==National and international media== | ||
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| ==Popular press== | ==Popular press== | ||
| * 'Child psychiatry is sick with hidden conflicts of interest' '''' December 14, 2008. | * 'Child psychiatry is sick with hidden conflicts of interest' '''' December 14, 2008. | ||
| * 'TWILIGHT sinks its teeth into feminism' '''' August 17, 2008. | |||
| * 'The boy problem: why so many boys think reading is stupid and school stinks' '''' September 1, 2007. | * 'The boy problem: why so many boys think reading is stupid and school stinks' '''' September 1, 2007. | ||
| * 'Single-sex education: Separate but better?' '']'', March 1, 2006. | * 'Single-sex education: Separate but better?' '']'', March 1, 2006. | ||
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Leonard Sax is an American psychologist and family physician. He is best known as the author of two books for parents: Why Gender Matters (Doubleday, 2005) and Boys Adrift (Basic Books, 2007). He is also founder and executive director of the National Association for Single Sex Public Education.
Biography
Sax graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1980 with a bachelor's degree in biology. He completed the combined M.D.-Ph.D. program at the University of Pennsylvania in 1986. His Ph.D. was in psychology. He completed the 3-year residency in family practice at Lancaster General Hospital (Lancaster, PA) in 1989. In 1990, he founded Poolesville Family Practice, a primary care practice in Montgomery County, Maryland. He retired from medical practice in the spring of 2008 in order "to devote myself full-time to working on issues of gender, gender equity, and education."
Praise
A cover story for TIME Magazine March 7 2005 included this statement: "Until recently, there have been two groups of people: those who argue sex differences are innate and should be embraced and those who insist that they are learned and should be eliminated by changing the environment. Sax is one of the few in the middle -- convinced that boys and girls are innately different and that we must change the environment so differences don't become limitations."
In a review in the New York Times published June 11, 2006, David Brooks calls Dr. Sax's first book Why Gender Matters "a lucid guide to male and female brain differences."
Dr. Sax's second book Boys Adrift was reviewed by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in December 2007. According to the review, Boys Adrift is "powerfully and persuasively presented," and provides "excellent and informative references and information."
After his Washington Post op-ed about the growing proportion of unmotivated boys -- what Leonard Sax calls the "Failure to Launch" phenomenon -- The Washington Post invited Dr. Sax to host a one-hour on-line chat, which broke all previous records for the Washington Post: they shut the system down after receiving 395 posts.
In introducing Dr. Sax as a keynote speaker for a 2008 district-wide conference of the York Region District School Board in Ontario, educator Michael Halfin said that “Dr. Sax is the Al Gore of the gender crisis. He has EDUCATED us about the nature and scope of the problem. He has WARNED us about the consequences of doing nothing. And he has INSPIRED us to take action in our schools and in our communities.”
Criticism
Mark Liberman, a professor of linguistics and computer science at the University of Pennsylvania, has questioned on his blog, Language Log, some of the claims which Leonard Sax has made in the past regarding sex differences in sensory acuity and emotional processing, particularly on some of Leonard Sax's web sites . Sax's responses can be accessed at this link.
In March 2008, the Sunday New York Times Magazine published a lengthy piece critical of single-sex education and of Leonard Sax's work as an advocate for single-sex education . The article concludes by asserting that single-sex education, and the notion of gender differences in learning, "is at odds with one of the most foundational principles of America’s public schools." Leonard Sax responds on the NASSPE website that this article presents a biased view of single-sex education, and that the article makes many factual mistakes, beginning with Sax's hair color.
National and international media
United States: Dr. Sax was a guest on the TODAY show July 31 2007. Matt Lauer interviewed Dr. Sax about the controversy surrounding boys' achievement, which was the topic of the cover story in TIME Magazine that week. Dr. Sax was first a guest on the TODAY show February 15 2005. Al Roker interviewed Dr. Sax about his book Why Gender Matters.
Canada: Dr. Sax was a guest in the Toronto studio of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for an interview broadcast nationwide on January 18 2008. [Streaming audio of that segment is available via this link.
Australia: Dr. Sax was a guest in the studio for the Today Show, interviewed by Jessica Rowe. [Streaming video of that segment is available at the Australian website.
New Zealand: Dr. Sax was a studio guest of New Zealand's Channel One in May 2008 for a discussion of single-sex public education, online at this Channel One link.
United Kingdom: Dr. Sax was the subject of a full-page feature article in the The Times, January 23 2008, available online at the Times website.. He was also featured in an article which appeared in the Daily Mail on January 24 2008, available at the Daily Mail website.
This listing of appearances comes from the NASSPE official site.
Popular press
- 'Child psychiatry is sick with hidden conflicts of interest' New York Daily News December 14, 2008.
- 'TWILIGHT sinks its teeth into feminism' Washington Post August 17, 2008.
- 'The boy problem: why so many boys think reading is stupid and school stinks' School Library Journal September 1, 2007.
- 'Single-sex education: Separate but better?' Philadelphia Daily News, March 1, 2006.
- 'The Promise and the Peril of Single-Sex PUBLIC Education'. Education Week, March 2, 2005, pp. 48, 34, 35.
- 'Too Few Women: Figure It Out'. Los Angeles Times, January 23, 2005, p. M5.
- 'Teens Will Speed. Let's Watch Them Do It'. The Washington Post, November 28, 2004, p. B8.
- 'The Odd Couple: Hillary Clinton & Kay Bailey Hutchison'. The Women's Quarterly , Summer 2002, pp. 14-16.
- 'Single Sex Education: Ready for Prime Time?' The World & I, August 2002, pp. 257-269.
- 'Rethinking Title IX'. The Washington Times, July 2 2001, p. A17.
- 'Ritalin: Better living through chemistry?' The World & I, November 2000, 287-299.
Scholarly articles
- 'Six Degrees of Separation: what teachers need to know about the emerging science of sex differences.' Educational Horizons, Spring 2006, pp. 190-200.
- 'The Diagnosis and Treatment of ADHD in Women'. The Female Patient 29 (2004): 29-34.
- 'Dietary Phosphorus Is Toxic for Girls But Not for Boys'. In Victor Preedy (ed.). Annual Reviews in Food & Nutrition London, UK: Taylor & Francis Publishers, 2003, pp. 158-168.
- 'Who First Suggests the Diagnosis of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder? A survey of primary-care pediatricians, family physicians, and child psychiatrists'. Annals of Family Medicine 1 (2003): 171-174.
- 'What Was the Cause of Nietzsche's Dementia?' Journal of Medical Biography 11 (2003): 47-54.
- 'How Common Is Intersex?' Journal of Sex Research 39 (2002): 174-178.
- 'Maybe Men and Women Are Different.' American Psychologist July (2002): 444-445.
- 'The Institute of Medicine's "Dietary Reference Intake" for Phosphorus: a critical perspective'. Journal of the American College of Nutrition 20 (2001): 271-278.
- 'Reclaiming Kindergarten: making kindergarten less harmful to boys'. Psychology of Men and Masculinity 2 (2001): 3-12.
- 'Characteristics of spatiotemporal integration in the priming and rewarding effects of medial forebrain bundle stimulation'. Behavioral Neuroscience 105 (1991): 884-900.
- 'Temporal integration in self-stimulation: a paradox'. Behavioral Neuroscience 98 (1984): 467-468.
References
- http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1032301-3,00.html
- http://select.nytimes.com/2006/06/11/opinion/11brooks.html?scp=3&sq=Gender+gap&st=nyt
- http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/extract/298/22/2684
- Transcript of the online chat session