By Christopher Brueningsen – USA Today 10/09/2021 “… Data supports the claim that boys are falling behind, and dramatically so. For example, there is a growing gender gap in high school graduation rates. According to the Brooking Institution, in 2018, about 88% of girls graduated on time, compared with 82% of boys…” Read the entire READ MORE
Category: Education of Boys
New schools are rising across the U.S. that look like charters but aren’t
By Jay Matthews – The Washington Post 10/31/2021 “…On both coasts now, we have big school-reform plans that seem unlikely to help students learn much. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio wants gifted classes in elementary schools to be replaced with accelerated classes, but he offers no practical way to make them as demanding as needed…” READ MORE
Education trial aims to tackle underachievement of boys
By Rebecca Black – Belfast Telegraph 10/22/2021 “…Professor Brian Murphy, director of academic business development and responsible for widening participation at the university, said boys and young men are “seriously falling behind at every level of the education system”…” Read the entire article: https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/education-trial-aims-to-tackle-underachievement-of-boys-40975007.html
Gender Gap in Education Achievements Widens Every Year
By: María Alejandra Pulgar, 10/04/21 “…“Historically, studies show that boys were more likely to hold positions of leadership within schools as well as graduate with higher rates. However, in the last few years, there has been such a push to have more girls take ownership of their educational future as well as understand the limitless READ MORE
OPINION: Too many young men are missing from college campuses like mine
by Tania Tetlow, 09/16/21 “…Nationally, 59 percent of college students are female; many campuses, like mine, have a gender imbalance, with the student body over 60 percent women and less than 40 percent men. And the gap only expands when we consider student retention; the six-year graduation rate is six percentage points lower for men READ MORE
Closing the growing gender gap in higher education
By Paul J. Luna and Charleita M. Richardson, 11/01/21 “…Several prominent media outlets recently called attention to this issue. Out of every 10 college students, The Wall Street Journal reported, about six are women while only four are men, and should this trend persist, there will soon be two women for every one man. The READ MORE
Education trial aims to tackle underachievement of boys
By Rebecca Black, PA, 10/22/21 “…Professor Brian Murphy, director of academic business development and responsible for widening participation at the university, said boys and young men are “seriously falling behind at every level of the education system”. “At Ulster University the participation rate for young men is now at 40% of our student population. Are READ MORE
How traits relate to brain activity may differ between autistic boys, girls
By Anna Goshua, 10/11/21 “…The new work bolsters the idea that the brains of autistic boys function differently from those of autistic girls. It should also serve as a warning to scientists to heed these differences when considering resting-state brain activity as a biomarker for autism, the researchers say….” Read the entire article: https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/how-traits-related-to-brain-activity-may-differ-between-autistic-boys-girls
Is the American Male Disappearing from Universities and the Workplace?
By Thomas A. Hemphill, 10/05/21 “…How important is the role of the father in the structure of the American family? According to the nonprofit National Fatherhood Initiative (NFI), the U.S. Census Bureau reports that, based on their national survey data for 2020, 18.3 million children (under eighteen years old), or one-in-four children, live without a READ MORE
Robin Newton: Underachievement in education in Northern Ireland, which particularly affects Protestant boys, must be addressed
By Robin Newton, 09/25/21 “…Consequently, the disparities that already existed within our education system will undoubtedly be widened further. Indeed, in a survey conducted by the National Foundation for Educational Researchers, 98% of teachers believed that their pupils were an average of three months behind the curriculum. They found boys were further behind than girls READ MORE