There is no doubt that many boys, particularly the not "naice" ones, and some girls are disconnected from schools, and that more needs to be done to make what we teach relevant to who we are teaching.
But, there is a question in this debate that is never asked, if girls do so much better at school, what happens to them after school? Where are all our bright, high achieving, well educated girls?
There are two problems in the way we educate our kids illuminated here; a systemic bias against boys in our schools and a similar systemic bias against girls in our work places. Neither are acceptable.

Hi John
I can never understand how so many well meaning people and researchers make people like me and you so angry. Could it be that all educational research is fundamentally flawed because the organisations (schools) on which they comment are themselves flawed. This messes up relationships, leadership opportunities and pretty much everything else. UK kids are rated as having the lowest self esteem in Europe but the effort put in by teachers (and researchers)is huge. Sadly our schools as organisations are flawed and based largely on what I can only describe as a pack of visionary lies. Pile in massive government interference and the organisation drowns in complexity. I believe that vertical tutoring has many answers so please visit www.verticaltutoring.org where I try to explain all of this. Having been a very successful head, I understand slugs only too well. Peter