By Alan Smith – Kent Online 10/04/2020 “… Staff at the school have tailored their teaching to suit the way boys tend to learn better, with Mrs McClure adding: “While always being careful not to gender-stereotype, there is evidence to suggest that boys and girls do develop neurologically in different ways. …” Read the entire READ MORE
Category: Education of Boys
University entrance: The ‘taboo’ about who doesn’t go
By Sean Coughlan – BBC News 09/27/2020 “… More than half a million new students will be heading off to start at universities across the UK this term, with record numbers set to enter despite all the Covid complications. But white males from low-income families are the “least likely” group to be going, according to READ MORE
Kids’ mental health can struggle during online school. Here’s how teachers are planning ahead.
By Erin Richards – Phys Org 08/03/2020 “… In Randolph, Massachusetts, just outside Boston, Yahaira Lopez is the mom of twin boys headed into fifth grade. One has attention deficit disorder and the other has autism, and both rely heavily on social and emotional supports at school. …” Read the entire article: https://phys.org/news/2020-08-kids-mental-health-struggle-online.html
Northern Ireland’s class-based divide ‘harming educational prospects of boys’
By Belfast Telegraph 08/02/2020 “… Stormont Education Minister Peter Weir has appointed an expert panel to examine links between poorer academic outcomes and social deprivation. …” Read the entire article: https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/northern-irelands-class-based-divide-harming-educational-prospects-of-boys-39416667.html
How to Make the COVID Classroom Work for Boys
By Michael Gurian – Psychology Today 07/22/2020 “… The first five strategies, relational ones, involve keeping children and school personnel connected with structured bonds and attachments that provide a foundation for successful online learning. These are important for all children and especially essential for boys who are difficult learners. …” Read the entire article: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-minds-boys-and-girls/202007/how-make-the-covid-classroom-work-boys
Girls Outnumber Boys At Prestigious Science And Math Competition
By Kevin Anderton – Forbe 07/28/2020 “… Furthermore, this year for the first time in the past 20 years, the girls outnumber the boys by 24 to 16, representing 60% of the group. …” Read the entire article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinanderton/2020/07/28/girls-outnumber-boys-at-prestigious-science-and-math-competition-infographic/#6fa87b8121b6
Boys fall further behind girls for daily reading amid lockdown, study suggests
By Simon Doyle – The Irish News 07/15/2020 “… BOYS have fallen further behind girls at reading regularly and enjoying it during lockdown. The gender gap in the number of children who say they take pleasure in reading and who read daily appears to have widened, prompting fears that boys could be at “risk of losing READ MORE
Teenage boys’ academic ambition may explain gender pay gap, study says
By Richard Adams – The Guardian 07/19/2020 “… The gender pay gap may be partly explained by teenage boys having more ambitious aims to attend prestigious universities than girls, even if they have the same academic results, according to research. …” Read the entire article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/20/teenage-boys-academic-ambition-may-explain-gender-pay-gap-study-says
Boys’ education: How to forge future-ready young men with big hearts
By Fran Molloy – SMH 06/10/2020 “… Boys-only schools argue they can tailor their curriculum, teaching and even their environment to cater for the ways boys think and learn. It’s a convincing argument; and the differences between boys and girls are often most stark in primary school classrooms when there’s a requirement to sit still, keep READ MORE
Low-Achieving Boys Opt for STEM Careers More Than Most Girls Do
By Sarah D. Sparks – Education Week 06/26/2020 “… Gender gaps in the most male-dominated science fields don’t come from men outperforming women academically in those subjects, but from the simple fact that overwhelmingly more boys than girls opt for those careers in spite of lackluster science skills. …” Read the entire article: https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/inside-school-research/2020/06/academics_don%27t_explain_gender_gap_in_physics_engineering_computer_science.html