By Michigan Public, 12/03/2025 “…Michigan officials discussed ways to better prepare the state’s boys and men for the future during a conference in Lansing Wednesday. Speakers brought up issues like a lagging number of males going to college, or going on to work in health, education, and literacy jobs, known as HEAL professions…” Read the READ MORE
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Overlooked crisis: call for inquiry into sliding boys’ education
By EducationHQ, 12/04/2025 “…Despite the scale of the problem, boys’ academic underperformance has been neglected by policymakers, with the focus given to areas where girls lag such as in STEM and maths – this has been to the detriment of boys, they contend…” Read the entire article: https://educationhq.com/news/overlooked-crisis-call-for-inquiry-into-sliding-boys-education-203725/
Strategies for Teaching Boys
By NEA, 12/10/2025 “…Boys today are less likely to go to college and more likely to struggle with loneliness and lack of purpose. NEA members are working to change that…” Read the entire article: https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/strategies-teaching-boys
Boys and girls tend to use different strategies to solve math problems, new research shows
By PsyPost, 01/15/2026 “…This new evidence may help explain an apparent contradiction in the existing research – girls do better at math in school, but boys do better on high-stakes math tests and are more likely to pursue math-intensive careers…” Read the entire article: https://www.psypost.org/boys-and-girls-tend-to-use-different-strategies-to-solve-math-problems-new-research-shows/
Boys need greater encouragement and support to excel academically
By The Witness, 01/17/2026 “…The boy child is increasingly being left behind, becoming underrepresented in matric cohorts and less likely than girls to return through second-chance pathways. This imbalance requires urgent and targeted intervention…” Read the entire article: https://witness.co.za/news/2026/01/17/boys-need-greater-encouragement-and-support-to-excel-academically/
Support for children with disabilities and special educational needs
By IFS, 10/03/2025 “…Boys, older children and children from poorer families are more likely to receive additional support in the education and benefit systems. More than two-thirds of children with EHCPs or CDLA are boys, making boys twice as likely to get support…” Read the entire article: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/support-children-disabilities-and-special-educational-needs
Utah task force explores boosting well-being of men and boys
By Deseret News, 09/08/2025 “…A Utah task force is studying ways to ensure that men and boys in the Beehive State thrive, targeting health, vocation and a sense of purpose. Although the work is in the early stages, the group is convinced that suicide rates, mental health, educational attainment, employment and other factors can all READ MORE
What Happens When Most of the Adults in Boys’ Lives Are Women
By New York Times, 09/08/2025 “…At the same time, boys have many fewer male role models in their daily lives. While men still fill most positions of power across American society, the people who interact with children are largely women. Occupations like pediatrics have switched to mostly being done by women, while those that were READ MORE
Teenage boys and protein — the dangers of bars and shakes
By The Times, 10/03/2025 “…A survey this year suggested that people are spending an average of £2,208 on “healthy lifestyle” products — fuelled by Gen Z’s love of social media — with protein shakes the most widely used, consumed by 21 per cent of those surveyed. But do we actually know what these products are READ MORE
Falling Behind: Do we treat boys like malfunctioning girls?
By Wbur, 08/25/2025 “…Boys fall behind girls in education in the U.S. starting as young as eight years old. Understanding how boys learn is key to knowing why that’s happening. Today, On Point: Part one of On Point’s weeklong series “Falling Behind: The Miseducation of America’s Boys.”…” Read the entire article: https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025/08/25/falling-behind-boys-girls-education-gap