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A respected educator who has advised Hillary Clinton and Cory Booker on scholastic issues presents a plan for teaching the countrys most educationally endangered groupboysDavid Banks knows a few things about at-risk boys In he petitioned New York Citys mayor to allow an all-boys public school to open in one of the most troubled districts in the country the South Bronx He had a point to prove When rituals that boys are innately drawn to are combined with college prep-level instruction and community mentorship even the most challenging students can succeed The result The Eagle Academy for Young Menthe first all-boys public high school in New York City in more than thirty yearshas flourished and has been successfully replicated in other boroughs and other states In Soar Banks shares the experiences of individual kids from the Eagle Academy as well as his own personal story to help others get similar results He shares the specific approach he and his team use to drive students from tapping into their natural competitiveness and peer-sensitivity to providing rituals that mimic their instinctual need for hierarchy and fraternal camaraderie to finding teachers who know firsthand the obstacles these students face Result-oriented and clear-eyed about the challenges and the promises of educating boys at risk Soar is a book that no one who wants to see our young men flourishfrom parents and educators to teachers and employerscan afford to miss.