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  • Brown student calls for 'revolution' against 'toxic masculinity’

    03/06/2018 8:29:27 AM PST · by C19fan · 48 replies
    Campus Reform ^ | March 5, 2018 | Toni Airaksinen
    A Brown University student has called for a “men’s revolution” to “liberate not only men, but all of society, from the constraints of toxic masculinity.” In a recent op-ed for The Brown Daily Herald, student Quentin Thomas argues that such a revolution is necessary because “toxic masculinity” causes men to “perpetrate harm against another individual and himself.”
  • The beginning of the end for campus kangaroo courts

    09/26/2017 4:17:48 AM PDT · by Oshkalaboomboom · 15 replies
    NY Post ^ | September 25, 2017 | Betsy McCaughey
    Good news for college men: You’re welcome again on campus. On Friday, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos ripped up the Obama administration’s one-sided rules on how colleges and universities handle accusations of sexual assault and misconduct. The rules, imposed in 2011, were so stacked against the accused — usually young men — that dozens of innocent male students were branded as rapists, kicked out of school and robbed of future job opportunities. Those with sufficient money and fortitude managed to get their names cleared in real courts of law — where rules of evidence, due process and reasonable standards of proof...
  • Female student demands men 'step back' in class discussions

    05/01/2017 8:16:17 AM PDT · by C19fan · 74 replies
    Campus Reform ^ | May 1, 2017 | Toni Airaksinen
    Male students who talk too much in class are oppressing their female peers, a Wesleyan University student contends in a recent op-ed. Tara Joy, a freshman who came to Wesleyan from an all-girls high school, writes in The Wesleyan Argus about how the excitement of her first year of college was dashed by the realization that some of the men in her classes “talked constantly.”
  • Sons of Divorce, School Shooters

    12/17/2013 6:50:50 AM PST · by neverdem · 92 replies
    National Review Online ^ | December 16, 2013 | W. Bradford Wilcox
    Another shooting, another son of divorce. From Adam Lanza, who killed 26 children and adults a year ago at Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Conn., to Karl Pierson, who shot a teenage girl and killed himself this past Friday at Arapahoe High in Centennial, Colo., one common and largely unremarked thread tying together most of the school shooters that have struck the nation in the last year is that they came from homes marked by divorce or an absent father. From shootings at MIT (i.e., the Tsarnaev brothers) to the University of Central Florida to the Ronald E. McNair Discovery...
  • School 1957 vs 2011

    08/23/2012 3:16:04 PM PDT · by xp38 · 23 replies
    unknown | 2011 | unknown
    From Australia but it translates well to the US. Uni is short for university. Ute is a pickup truck. Scenario : Jack goes rabbit shooting before school, pulls into school parking lot with rifle in gun rack. 1957 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's rifle, goes to his car and gets his rifle & chats with Jack about guns. 2011 - School goes into lock down, Tactical Response called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his ute or gun again.. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers. Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight...
  • The Boy Gap

    02/20/2010 8:27:08 PM PST · by AJKauf · 78 replies · 1,609+ views
    Pajamas Media ^ | Feb. 20 | Joanne Jacobs
    As a volunteer in my daughter’s kindergarten class, I was asked to help children write a “story” (a few words) to illustrate their pictures. Only one girl needed my writing help; only one boy could write for himself. Nearly all the boys seemed to be a full year behind nearly all the girls in their ability to pay attention, follow directions, control frustrations, sit still, handle a pencil or crayon and do what used to be considered first-grade work. As reading and writing are pushed down to earlier ages, boys are struggling harder to meet higher expectations, writes Richard Whitmire,...
  • The nation's schools are failing boys

    01/23/2010 3:19:42 AM PST · by Scanian · 33 replies · 924+ views
    NY Post ^ | January 23, 2010 | MAGGIE GALLAGHER
    The headline from The Washington Post cele brates yet another milestone: "University of Virginia picks its first female president." Meantime, the data continues to mount that our educational system is massively failing one gender: boys. In a new book, "Why Boys Fail," Richard Whitmire points to a study that tracked every graduate of the Boston public schools in 2007. For every 167 women in a four-year college, there were only 100 men. Gender even beat race as a predictor of college attendance: Black women were 5 percentage points more likely than white men to be in college. And it's not...
  • Johnny Can't Add

    09/23/2009 5:05:46 PM PDT · by Niuhuru · 18 replies · 1,631+ views
    Fred On Everything | July 28, 2003 | Fred Reed
    Maybe we need to wake up. The other day I went to the Web site of Bell Labs, one of the country's premier research outfits. I clicked at random on a research project, Programmable Networks for Tomorrow. The scientists working on the project were Gisli Hjalmstysson, Nikos Anerousis, Pawan Goyal, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Jennifer Rexford, Kobus Van der Merwe, and Sneha Kumar Kasera. Clicking again at random, this time on the Information Visualization Research Group, the research team turned out to be John Ellson, Emden Gansner, John Mocenigo, Stephen North, Jeffery Korn, Eleftherios Koutsofios, Bin Wei, Shankar Krishnan, and Suresh...
  • Baseless Bias and the New Second Sex

    06/11/2009 3:38:29 PM PDT · by neverdem · 13 replies · 680+ views
    The American ^ | June 10, 2009 | Christina Hoff Sommers
    Claims of bias against women in academic science have been greatly exaggerated. Meanwhile, men are becoming the second sex in American higher education.In 2006 the National Academy of Sciences released Beyond Bias And Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering, which found “pervasive unexamined gender bias” against women in academic science. Donna Shalala, a former Clinton administration cabinet secretary, chaired the committee that wrote the report. When she spoke at a congressional hearing in October 2007, she warned that strong measures would be needed to improve the “hostile climate” women face in university science. This “crisis,”...
  • The Crisis of the Disappearing Educated Male

    05/28/2009 2:48:58 AM PDT · by Scanian · 38 replies · 1,253+ views
    The American Thinker ^ | May 28, 2009 | Janice Shaw Crouse
    Over the Memorial Day weekend, many college administrators attended a conference about the absence of men on today's college campuses and expressed concern about the negative experiences and unprecedented challenges facing college men today. The "2nd Conference on College Men" at the University of Pennsylvania featured sessions examining the implications of negative comments about men that are prevalent on college campuses and the sexist campus activism of participants in the nation's 500 college gender studies departments. The conference program, attended by about 100 professors and student affairs personnel, exposed some unpleasant facts: men are "overrepresented" in drug and alcohol abuse,...
  • Judge: University of Oregon OK to end men's wrestling program

    10/28/2008 12:21:05 PM PDT · by jasonmyos · 18 replies · 769+ views
    Legal Newsline ^ | 10/28/2008
    SALEM, Ore. (Legal Newsline) -The University of Oregon was within its rights to jettison its men's wrestling program, a state judge ruled Tuesday. Marion County Circuit Judge Lynn Ashcroft upheld the university's decision to scuttle its intercollegiate wrestling program, saying the school can chose what programs it offers.
  • Male college students more likely than less-educated peers to commit property crimes

    08/02/2008 5:52:18 AM PDT · by decimon · 16 replies · 168+ views
    American Sociological Association ^ | Aug 2, 2008 | Unknown
    Sociological research reveals paradox of higher education, crimeBOSTON — Men who attend college are more likely to commit property crimes during their college years than their non-college-attending peers, according to research to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. Sociologists at Bowling Green State University found that college-bound youth report lower levels of criminal activity and substance use during adolescence compared to non-college-bound youth. However, levels of drinking, property theft and unstructured socializing with friends increase among the college-bound after enrollment at a four-year university, and they surpass the rates of less-educated peers. "College attendance is...
  • Saving Young Men With Career Academies

    07/26/2008 7:02:07 AM PDT · by Amelia · 14 replies · 92+ views
    The Washington Post ^ | Monday, July 21, 2008 | Jay Mathews
    By usual measures of student progress, America's high school career academies have been a failure. One of the longest and most scientific education studies ever conducted concluded they did not improve test scores or graduation rates or college success for urban youth. People like me, obsessed with raising student achievement, saw those numbers and said: Well, too bad. Let's try something else. And yet, because the career academy research by the New York-based MDRC (formerly known as the Manpower Demonstration Research Corp.) was so detailed and professional, we have just learned that the academies accomplished something perhaps even better than...
  • Girl Crazy - A new report papers over the growing education gap between the sexes.

    05/26/2008 5:51:38 PM PDT · by neverdem · 15 replies · 141+ views
    City Journal ^ | 23 May 2008 | John Leo
    The American Association of University Women has long downplayed the school problems of boys, arguing instead that the education establishment victimizes girls, in what it calls an “unacknowledged tragedy.” So it is unsurprising that the AAUW’s latest report, “Where the Girls Are,” argues against the “myth” that boys are falling behind girls in school. The Washington Post summarized the report’s findings in a page-one headline: NO CRISIS FOR BOYS IN SCHOOL, STUDY SAYS. The AAUW has been down this road before. Its 1992 report, “How Schools Shortchange Girls,” was a powerful and effective—though mostly false—lobbying effort for “gender equity.” As...
  • Pa. boys are at risk in school

    03/27/2008 6:00:31 PM PDT · by neverdem · 5 replies · 1,491+ views
    Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | Mar. 27, 2008 | Richard Whitmire
    It's a working-class white concern, and a can't-miss issue for Obama. Richard Whitmire is president of the National Education Writers Association Barack Obama's advisers know that winning in Pennsylvania requires shrinking Hillary Clinton's wide lead among "Casey Democrats," working-class whites who were fond of their former Gov Robert Casey. The themes both Obama and Clinton aired out in Ohio to attract those voters, such as attacking NAFTA and decrying lapses in health-care coverage, undoubtedly will resurface in the coming weeks. But there's one more issue affecting these voters that the candidates haven't aired. And it's Hillary-proof. Anyone visiting the homes...
  • Female tutors are best for boys

    08/25/2007 4:38:15 AM PDT · by CarrotAndStick · 23 replies · 1,463+ views
    Reuters via The Times of India ^ | 25 Aug 2007, 0009 hrs IST | Reuters
    CALGARY (ALBERTA): The reading skills of young male students may improve more when boys are tutored by women, a Canadian study shows, contradicting some school policies to hire male teachers to improve boys’ literacy. Herb Katz, an education professor at the University of Alberta, took 175 boys in the third and fourth grades, identified as struggling readers, and paired them with a research assistant who worked on their reading skills for 30 minutes a week over 10 weeks. On average, the boys paired with female tutors felt better about their reading skills after the 10 weeks than those who were...
  • UK: Low attainers 'poor white boys'

    06/22/2007 6:26:41 AM PDT · by yankeedame · 36 replies · 1,080+ views
    BBC.com ^ | Friday, 22 June 2007 | staff writer
    Last Updated: Friday, 22 June 2007, 10:25 GMT 11:25 UK Low attainers 'poor white boys' The researchers say some policy initiatives have lost their way Most of the persistent low achievers in England's schools are poor and white, and far more are boys than girls, a Joseph Rowntree Foundation study says. Chinese and Indian pupils are most successful. Afro-Caribbean pupils do no worse than white British from similar economic backgrounds, results suggest. The analysis, by London School of Economics academics, says that some policies are having positive effects. But others, such as school league tables, actually make things worse. The...
  • Boys Are In Trouble

    06/11/2007 8:38:37 AM PDT · by LUMary · 31 replies · 1,283+ views
    Boys Are In Trouble by: Wendy Cook, June 04, 2007 Since the 33-year-old Women’s Educational Equity Act’s inception, the U. S. Congress has appropriated around $10 million annually for research, curricula development and teaching strategies to promote “gender equity,” according to information from the U.S. Department of Education. But what about the boys, have they been left behind by our nation’s schools? “Boys are in trouble,” said Krista Kafer, visiting fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum. “The facts are quite clear; boys trail girls in most indicators of academic excellence such as, school engagement, achievement scores, and graduation rates at...
  • How the Schools Shortchange Boys - In the newly feminized classroom, boys tune out.

    08/03/2006 11:38:51 AM PDT · by neverdem · 284 replies · 4,956+ views
    City Journal ^ | Summer 2006 | Gerry Garibaldi
    Since I started teaching several years ago, after 25 years in the movie business, I’ve come to learn firsthand that everything I’d heard about the feminization of our schools is real—and far more pernicious to boys than I had imagined. Christina Hoff Sommers was absolutely accurate in describing, in her 2000 bestseller, The War Against Boys, how feminist complaints that girls were “losing their voice” in a male-oriented classroom have prompted the educational establishment to turn the schools upside down to make them more girl-friendly, to the detriment of males. As a result, boys have become increasingly disengaged. Only 65...
  • HOW THE SCHOOL ACTIVISTS ARE DESTROYING OUR SONS

    07/25/2006 8:10:42 AM PDT · by Lovingthis · 95 replies · 2,438+ views
    City Journal ^ | Spring '06 Quarterly edition | Gerry Garibaldi
    How the Schools Shortchange Boys, by Gerry Garibaldi In the newly feminized classroom, boys tune out. Since I started teaching several years ago, after 25 years in the movie business, I’ve come to learn firsthand that everything I’d heard about the feminization of our schools is real—and far more pernicious to boys than I had imagined. Christina Hoff Sommers was absolutely accurate in describing, in her 2000 bestseller, The War Against Boys, how feminist complaints that girls were “losing their voice” in a male-oriented classroom have prompted the educational establishment to turn the schools upside down to make them more...