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

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  November 30, 1999 ;   Walker, Theresa;   787 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 ;   Patti Doten, Globe Staff;   787 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 ;   Pollack, William S.;   787 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 Minds of Boys: Saving Our Sons from Falling Behind in School and...

Childhood Education;  January 1, 2006 ;   Rosenblatt, Andrea F.;   766 words ...THE MINDS OF BOYS: Saving Our Sons From Falling Behind in School and...techniques and strategies to better meet the needs of boys. Their topics include: the current crisis in education for boys, how boys learn, helping boys through the early years...

Boys will be boys.(psychology)

Public Interest;  June 22, 1999 ;   Broude, Gwen J.;   787 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 ;   O'Donnell, Brother Greg;   787 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 ;   Nan Spowart;   702 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...

Time to let boys be boys

Chicago Sun-Times;  June 19, 2000 ;   BETSY HART;   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 ;   TIM MILES; PAUL SIMS;   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 ...

Boys in Crisis?

The Educational Forum;  January 1, 2007 ;   Henderson, A Scott;   639 words ...Boys in Crisis? The Minds of Boys: Saving Our Sons from Falling Behind in School and Life by Michael...observers identify as a widespread decline in the academic performance of boys. In The Minds of Boys, Michael Gurian, a social philosopher and family...

BOYS ARE SO SECOND CLASS AT SCHOOL

Evening News - Scotland;  July 3, 2000 ;   HELEN PUTTICK;   614 words ...BOYS could be taught in separate classes from girls at an East...the sexes when it comes to exam results - out-performing boys in 21 Higher subjects last year. Now Ross High School, in...balance from this August. And if they do not prove successful, boys could be taught in separate classes for certain ...

Politics: Classroom rescue for Britain's lost boys

The Independent - London;  January 5, 1998 ;   Fran Abrams, Political Correspondent;   496 words ...Action to help boys catch up with their female classmates will...have to spell out how it plans to tackle boys' under achievement, the schools minister...approach to the teaching of reading, in which boys seem to respond less well than girls to...

If we're not careful, boys won't be boys much longer.(Features)(Books)

The Christian Science Monitor;  July 20, 2000 ;     665 words ...THE WAR AGAINST BOYS: HOW MISGUIDED FEMINISM IS HARMING OUR...victims of a culture that supposedly favors boys. Now, in a new century, the spotlight is...scientists are turning their attention to boys, arguing that they are the new victims...