October 8, 2012
News Clips
- Gay Boy Scout, Bullied by Troop, Denied Eagle Rank
Ryan Andresen has spent a decade completing the requirements for the coveted Eagle Scout award, and now that he is just about to turn 18 — the cut-off date for attaining the highest honor — his Boy Scout troop won’t approve it because he is gay.
ABC News
October 5, 2012 - Newborn boys’ thyroid levels tied to BPA
The new findings add to growing health concerns about BPA, a chemical found in hard plastics, linings of canned food, dental sealants, and sales receipts on thermal paper, which is coated with a chemical that changes color when exposed to heat.
Futurity
October 4, 2012 - 10,000+ Join “NERDS Unite![TM]†as National Survey Shows More Than Half of Teens Call Themselves “Nerds,†86 Percent of Teens Embrace Differences in Others
WONKA® “NERDS Unite!†Anti-Bullying Campaign Donates $25,000 to STOMP Out Bullying as National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month Begins in U.S.
Herald Online
October 3, 2012 - In A First, An Experimental Drug May Help Boys With Muscular Dystrophy
Forbes
October 3, 2012 - Boy Scouts to notify police departments of suspected pedophiles
Fox News
October 1, 2012
Opinion
- Column: Plastic women vs. cardboard men
Education reform efforts favor girls, at the cost of educating our boys.
Over the past decade, hundreds of articles and scores of book have chronicled “boy troubles,” the odd phenomenon of boys flailing in school and men adrift in life.
Richard Whitmire
USA Today
October 7, 2012
International News
CANADA
- Focus Shifting to Educational Needs of Boys
Education Minister Clyde Jackman says after years of focusing on the educational needs of girls, efforts are underway to address how boys learn and encourage their strengths.
vocm.com
October 4, 2012 - Transgendered kids can use whichever school washroom they wish: TDSB
Toronto Sun
October 3, 2012
PAKISTAN
- Pakistan school offers hope for children rescued from the Taliban
For the 180 or so boys attending this highly specialised school on Pakistan’s lawless North-West Frontier are all veterans of the Taliban, the militant Islamist movement that is waging war on both sides of the border with neighbouring Afghanistan.Seized or bought from their families by Taliban fighters promising them a better life, they were plunged into a relentless cycle of indoctrination aimed at turning them into suicide bombers or fighters willing to sacrifice their lives attacking Nato forces in Afghanistan or taking part in the Taliban’s increasingly violent campaign against the Pakistani government.
The Telegraph
October 5, 2012
UAE
- Study: teen boys in the UAE among heaviest in Arab countries
sevendaysindubai.com
October 1, 2012
UK
- Private schools failing to recruit working-class white boys
Generous bursaries available to poor pupils are being increasingly claimed by children from Asian, Afro-Caribbean and Eastern European families, it was claimed. Members of the Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference, which represents more than 250 top independent schools, said children from white British backgrounds were not as “spontaneously interested in success and upward mobility†as many ethnic minorities.
The Telegraph
October 5, 2012 - Four-in-10 children ‘struggle to read basic words’
White British boys from the poorest backgrounds officially performed worse than any group, other than those from gypsy and traveller families. Just 37 per cent of these children reached the standard expected of their age group.
The Telegraph
September 27, 2012