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: Social Issues
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
Research sheds light on what’s killing young people, especially boys and young men
By Joanne Silberner – NPR 11/19/2021 “… First, the good news: The death rate among young people around the world has been declining, a new study shows. But boys and young men are not doing as well as girls and young women…” Read the entire article: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/11/19/1055129130/research-sheds-light-on-whats-killing-young-people-especially-boys-and-young-men 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
As The Mom Of Boys, It’s Important That I Take Their Mental Health Seriously
By Alicia Stein – Scary Mommy, 10/11/2021 “…According to the National Institute of Mental Health, men are less likely to experience mental health struggles than women. However, they are also less likely to have sought help for a mental health problem in the past year than women…” Read the entire article: https://www.scarymommy.com/mental-health-mom-boys/ 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
Sen. Hawley Rouses Idle Men From Their Basements, Porn, and Video Games: ‘You Can Be a Tremendous Force for Good’
By Mary Margaret Olohan – Daily Signal, 11/10/2021 “… The Missouri Republican criticized the liberal label “toxic masculinity” and called for a new message to be sent to the men of America: one that focuses on the good that men can accomplish if they orient their masculinity toward the good…” Read the entire article: https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/11/10/hawley-toxic-masculinity-men-idleness-pornography-video-games/ The READ MORE
High rate of suicide among young, African American boys, data shows
By Erica Simon – ABC13 Houston, 11/04/2021 “… Hudson says oftentimes Black boys who act out in school are miscategorized and overly disciplined. She believes all of us have to get to the root of the problem, so that every child – Black or not – feels seen, valued, and has space to process trauma 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