The Boy Brain: Wired to Go

Honolulu Star - Bulletin;  May 28, 2006 ;     700+ words ......typical female brain at rest. Boys also are slower than girls...I have to shout at the boys to get something done. The boys just don't focus as well...almost all the parents of the boys were clueless. So she started...teachers, fresh from the Gurian Institute Training Division in ...

What about the boys? In the midst of Girl Power, troublesome questions are...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  November 30, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Big boys don't cry. Mama's boy. Take it like a man...and the girls movement, we have not yet let boys out of this box. According to a growing body...and everyday folks who live and work with boys, it's not just any old box that we've put...

Without guidance, boys will be troubled boys

The Boston Globe;  July 20, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Will boys continue to kill in our nation's schoolyards...yes, says William Pollack, author of "Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons From the Myths of Boyhood...published by Random House. Pollack argues that boys need help in trying to understand what it...

The Columbine Syndrome.(paranoia about potentially violent boys)

National Forum;  September 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Boys and The Feat of Violence I don't want to be that type of kid who comes to school and just takes out a gun and starts...Jimmy, age 16, from a small town in the West Probably no risk other than violence has made America more afraid of boys and made boys more afraid of being male and living in this ...

Boys' disadvantage in the classroom a myth, group says

Columbia Daily Tribune;  May 20, 2008 ;     552 words ...WASHINGTON - Both boys and girls are doing better in school, so...fear that school systems favor girls at boys' expense, a women's advocacy group said...today. It's the freshest argument in the boys vs. girls debate in education, one in which...

The Trouble With Boys; They're kinetic, maddening and failing at school....

Newsweek;  January 30, 2006 ;     700+ words ......What's wrong with Danny? By almost every benchmark, boys across the nation and in every demographic group are falling behind. In elementary school, boys are two times more likely than girls to be diagnosed...be placed in special-education classes. High-school boys are losing ground to girls on ...

Boys will be boys.(psychology)

Public Interest;  June 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Are boys in trouble today? Their situation is desperate, according to...several best-selling books, most notably William Pollack's Real Boys and Michael Gurian's The Wonder of Boys and A Fine Young Man. Both Pollack, codirector of the Center...

Interactive: Boys will be boys - if the subject is right.(News)

The Birmingham Post (England);  May 11, 1999 ;     357 words ...Boys may be about to lose the battle of the sexes even in cyberspace...to new research. Up to now, as evidence has mounted that boys are slipping behind girls in basic literacy, there has been...them. When the last traditional book has crumbled into dust, boys will be the new masters in a world of ...

Boys will be boys: A case for single-gender education

Honolulu Star - Bulletin;  June 25, 2006 ;     700+ words ...face=+Bold; Boys simply don't learn the same way girls do, so why do we try to force them to?face=-Bold; BOYS ARE different from girls. How's that for...points. For starters, the natural thing for boys and girls is to be extremely different...

Should we put manhood on the national curriculum for boys?

The Scotsman;  November 2, 1999 ;     700+ words ...BOYS will be boys - until they go to school when they are thrown into an environment which...violent crime. The UK Men's Movement is in favour of all-male camps where boys would have "the space to be boys", according to George McAulay, the Scottish...

Fed: Boys and girls are different - nurture the nature

AAP General News (Australia);  July 6, 2007 ;     571 words ......07-06-2007 Fed: Boys and girls are different...Correspondent SYDNEY, AAP - Boys and girls have different...the Colorado-based Gurian Institute for training and...differences in the ways boys and girls react...really "smarter" than boys, as some parents suggest, Mr Gurian said: ...

Time to let boys be boys

Chicago Sun-Times;  June 19, 2000 ;     528 words ...`Boys will be boys" used to be accepted wisdom. Now it's the equivalent of a four-letter word...author of Who Stole Feminism? in her provocative new book, The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men. "It's a bad time to be...

Boys work out a way to narrow gender gap

Evening Standard - London;  August 19, 2004 ;     502 words ...BOYS are fighting back in the academic battle of the sexes. Four...then they have narrowed the gender gap. Headteachers said boys were changing the way they study as they adapted to the new...When only A-grades are counted, this year girls are ahead of boys by 2.7 percentage points. Last year the gap was ...

Educators Differ on Why Boys Lag in Reading; Gap Stokes Debate Over...

The Washington Post;  March 15, 2005 ;     700+ words ......and larger spatial centers -- than girls and that boys develop language abilities at a slower rate, though...generally learn to read and understand language sooner than boys, which helps to explain why early remedial reading classes are most often heavily populated with boys, teachers say. The new push ...

Boys in Crisis?

The Educational Forum;  January 1, 2007 ;     639 words ......current pedagogical practices disproportionately hurt all boys because the brains of males and females are intrinsically...undisputed crises in education: the plight of impoverished boys in America's inner-city schools. In fact, Gurian and...so, they would have discovered that differences among ...