In “The Plight of Young Males” Saul Kaplan calls attention to how young men are not receiving as high of an education as women. The average eleventh grade boy writes at the same comprehension level of the average eighth grade girl, slowly but steadily young men have been decreasing in seeking higher education. Young men make up fifty-one percent of the population, but only forty percent of them go to college, the statistics for men of color are even worse than this. For those who do not go to college, they used to be able to go straight to work and still have the same resources and opportunities as people who went to college, so the focus of American jobs has shifted towards people that have college degrees. But those who chose to go to work
