By CPR, 12/02/2021 “…Many of the kids in this classroom and their fellow first graders hadn’t been in a formal classroom with other students in 18 months. Instead, they’d been on screens, often alone. So, they struggled with listening, processing what the teacher was saying, and then doing the task…” Read the entire article: https://www.cpr.org/2021/12/02/kindergarten-pandemic-in-person-learning/ The READ MORE
Category: Education of Boys
The Global Lane – EP523
By CBN News, 12/09/2021 The Boys Initiative Executive Director, Vermelle Greene, talks to CBN News about issues concerning boys including school shootings and returning to school during the pandemic. Read the entire article: https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/global-lane?nid=604249 The Boys Initiativeboysinitiative.org
There aren’t enough men teaching elementary school. Here’s how we can change that — and why we must.
By Jason Baez – Chalkbeat New York 11/02/2021 “…Moreover, additional male teachers can model for boys, especially boys without fathers or with absent ones, a healthy form of masculinity. I’ve also seen male teachers connect with boys in ways that help them improve academically…” Read the entire article: https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2021/11/2/22751904/male-elementary-school-teachers The Boys Initiativeboysinitiative.org
Gender, education and dropouts
By The Manila Times 11/30/2021 “…A recent article in the magazine The Atlantic pointed out that US colleges and universities currently enroll six women for every four men, a gender gap that is getting wider with every year…” Read the entire article: https://www.manilatimes.net/2021/11/30/opinion/columns/gender-education-and-dropouts/1824157 The Boys Initiativeboysinitiative.org
Dangerous Changes Coming for Title IX
By John Schoof – The Heritage Foundation 11/29/2021 “… The Biden administration wants universities to change how they handle sexual assault claims on campuses. The changes would deny accused students their basic rights…” Read the entire article: https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/dangerous-changes-coming-title-ix The Boys Initiativeboysinitiative.org
Colleges Have a Guy Problem
By Derek Thompson – The Atlantic, 09/14/2021 “…American colleges and universities now enroll roughly six women for every four men. This is the largest female-male gender gap in the history of higher education, and it’s getting wider…” Read the entire article: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/young-men-college-decline-gender-gap-higher-education/620066/ The Boys Initiativeboysinitiative.org
Boys are falling farther and farther behind their sisters: should we care?
By Leonard Sax – MercatorNet, 10/11/2021 “… There is a growing gender gap in higher education. According to the latest figures from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center: as of spring 2021, women accounted for 59.5% of students attending colleges and universities nationwide. Among four-year private colleges, women now account for 61% of all students…” READ MORE
The male college crisis is not just in enrollment, but completion
By Richard V. Reeves and Ember Smith – Brookings 10/08/2021 “…In 1972, when the U.S. government passed the landmark Title IX laws to promote gender equality in education, there was a 12 percentage-point gap in the proportion of bachelor’s degrees going to men compared to women. By 1982, the gap had closed. Nobody predicted what READ MORE
Boys in crisis: Schools are failing young males. Here’s what needs to change in classrooms
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
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