TIME‘s latest cover story examines the controversy surrounding the proper education of boys.

The fascinating piece includes a couple of North Carolina references:

“A boy will get a reputation as hell on wheels that follows him from one teacher to the next, and soon they’re coming down on him even before he screws up. So he learns to hate school,” says Mike Miller, an elementary school teacher in North Carolina. Miller’s principal has ordered every faculty member to read a book this summer titled Hear Our Cry: Boys in Crisis.

Later, author David Von Drehle takes a trip to a North Carolina boys’ camp:

If The Dangerous Book were a place, it would look like the Falling Creek Camp for Boys in North Carolina–a rustic paradise complete with a rifle range, nearby mountains to climb and a lake complete with swimming dock and rope swing. The choice of activities at the camp is dizzying, from soccer to blacksmithing, from kayaking to watercolors, but no pastime is more popular than building forts of fallen tree limbs and poking at turtles in the creek. Leave your cell phones, laptops and iPods at home.