The new gender gap in education is increasingly well-documented.

In Massachusetts, new research by the Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy shows boys score lower than girls on the state's standardized assessment tests, more often wind up in special education and drop out of school at higher rates.

A survey by the New Hampshire Partnership for the Advancement of Post-secondary Education Research, or NH PAPER, finds that last year's female high school seniors planned to go to college at a rate almost 10 percentage points higher than their male classmates.

Northeastern University's Center for Labor Market Studies reports that men in every New England state earn fewer associate, ...