By CBS News, 11/12/2023 “…At the University of Vermont not long ago, it was move-in day for the class of 2027. About a thousand incoming freshman were meeting their roommates, finding their dorm rooms, and getting settled on campus. At first glance one might have thought this was an all-women’s college – 62% of this READ MORE
Category: Advocacy for Boys
Boys’ reading motivation continues to lag: How schools can address this problem
By Physical.org, 11/06/2023 “…Children’s reading skills have been declining for some time now. Apart from the known fact that boys’ reading skills are worse than girls’, it is also common knowledge that they are less motivated when it comes to reading…” Read the entire article: https://phys.org/news/2023-11-boys-lag-schools-problem.html
Boys graduate high school at lower rates than girls, with lifelong consequences
By News Press Now, 11/08/2023 “…They attend the same classes with access to the same programs, and even come from the same families. But girls consistently are outperforming boys, graduating at higher rates at public high schools around the country…” Read the entire article: https://www.newspressnow.com/boys-graduate-high-school-at-lower-rates-than-girls-with-lifelong-consequences/article_eabc6118-7e93-11ee-ba46-ebe4a2801afc.html
Boys and Men in the United States Are Struggling. The Left Should Talk About It.
By Richard Reeves, 09/13/2023 “…From being less likely to graduate from college to experiencing much higher rates of “deaths of despair,” men and boys in the US — especially working-class men and boys — are suffering….” Read the entire article: https://jacobin.com/2023/09/boys-men-work-despair-struggling-wages-education
Almost half of young men have never approached a woman romantically; study
By Blake Dietz, 09/28/2023 “…Young people are more lonely, unhappy and have less partners than their parents; and it may be because young men simply aren’t trying, according to new research. A study published on DatePsychology reports that almost 50% of young men between the ages of 18-25 said they have never approached women for READ MORE
High Achieving Boys
By Division 51 “…Although many boys do well in school, data has consistently shown that girls, on average, outperform boys on nearly every academic outcome. High-achieving boys have increasingly become outliers in a system that does not serve their needs nor promote healthy development….” Read the entire article: https://www.division51.net/high-achieving-boys
Douglas Todd: Should boys be held back a year in school — by default?
By Vancouver Sun, 07/24/2023 “…The gender gap between boys and girls in kindergarten to Grade 12 is undeniable. Study after study has shown girls are outperforming boys, except perhaps in math, where males have a shrinking, razor-thin advantage. Other than that, pick your startling statistic…” Read the entire article: https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-should-boys-be-held-back-a-year-in-school-by-default
Why Schools Close Black Boys Out of Gifted and Talented Programs
By ACA, 08/29/2023 “…Flaws in testing and racial bias among teachers and school counselors are some of the reasons many Black boys are denied advanced learning programs and misdirected into special education, according to a new assessment published in the American Counseling Association’s Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development…” Read the entire article: https://www.counseling.org/news/news-detail/2023/08/29/why-schools-close-black-boys-out-of-gifted-and-talented-programs
The education crisis facing American boys
By Brown Daily Herald, 09/10/2023 “…While both men and women this century are more likely to attend college than in the past, the pace of enrollment for men has been comparatively slower. If current trends continue, we can soon expect to graduate two women for every man receiving a college degree…” Read the entire article: READ MORE
The Other Gender Gap Starts in Kindergarten
By Hawaii Business, 05/19/2023 “…That means one big gender gap between women and men has been reversed in the past half century: Women are now as far ahead in higher education as men were when Title IX became law 51 years ago…” Read the entire article: https://www.hawaiibusiness.com/education-gender-gap-in-children/