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• Uncategorized

  • NYT magazine cover story

• The General Topic

  • Australia’s report on boys falling behind
  • Report on girls reveals boy lapses
  • State of American Manhood
  • Mortenson’s famous “for every 100 girls..”
  • Massachusetts boys
  • High school dropout problem
  • Gender imbalances in Chicago elite schools
  • Gender issues go beyond race and class
  • Jonathan Rauch predicts…
  • Economists explain context
  • DOE report on college gender gaps
  • Maine boys
  • Kleinfeld: State of American Boyhood
  • IWF report on boys
  • Why the boy troubles are ignored
  • Kleinfeld/Mortenson data

• Literacy

  • Boys behind in reading and writing
  • illinois reading exams
  • Boys barely ahead in math, far behind in literacy
  • My New Republic piece
  • Editorial on literacy
  • Writing problems

• College Admit Prefs

  • U.S. News documenting admissons preferences
  • Why women aren’t suing over boy preferences
  • Time looks at admission preferences
  • Affirmative action for men

• College Dropouts

  • black women exceeding white men

• College Years

  • Debate on college numbers
  • Gender gaps in Calif. public universities
  • Calif study — a follow-up
  • ACE’s report on race and gender gaps
  • NYT profile of new campus reality
  • Chicago gender research on high school and college
  • Florida situation
  • Gender graduation gaps among minorities
  • Canadian research into campus imbalances
  • Urban Institute report on minorities
  • Projections of widening gaps
  • Predictions of future college enrollment
  • Editorial on California trends
  • Mortenson on college trends
  • Chronicle commentary on JMU imbalances
  • Starting football to attract guys?
  • DOE report on college gender gaps

• Minority Boys

  • Noguera’s “The Trouble With Black Boys”
  • ACE’s report on race and gender gaps
  • Black males on campus
  • Chicago gender research on high school and college
  • Gender graduation gaps among minorities
  • McWhorter’s hip-hop book
  • Schott foundation report
  • Obama and black boys

• Changing Economics

  • “Perfect Storm” report from ETS
  • Jobs shifting away from men
  • Heightened importance of what women study
  • Jonathan Rauch predicts…
  • Economists explain context
  • Goldin book on impact of education
  • Women majority of workforce
  • Recession pushing men into minority of workforce

• Pushback Movement

  • My Press Club panel with Sara Mead
  • Education Sector report denying boy problems
  • USA Today editorial response to AAUW
  • My OJR response to the AAUW
  • AAUW’s latest “pushback” report
  • Pushback movement
  • Debate on college numbers
  • Pushback editorial
  • Mortenson on college trends
  • Editorial response to aauw report
  • Editorial response to aauw report
  • Why the boy troubles are ignored

• Schools That Work for Boys

  • NYC all-boys charter school

• Male Teachers

  • male teachers disappearing

• Social Consequences

  • NYT article on women outearning men
  • Dating changes
  • Sax’s “Failure to Launch”
  • Jonathan Rauch predicts…
  • Census: More women childless
  • Womenomics:Growing workforce clout
  • New (and unsettling) gamesmenship
  • Marriageable mates
  • More on marrying down
  • In recent years, men less likely to marry down?
  • Blue collar guys unable to find mates
  • Women majority of workforce
  • More women parenting alone
  • Recession pushing men into minority of workforce

• Math/Science

  • Boys barely ahead in math, far behind in literacy
  • Sax’s theory about unbalanced college majors

• Single Sex Schools

  • Schools unprepared for single-sex experiment
  • nyt magazine on single sex
  • Leonard Sax’s reply to NYT story
  • Warning signs on single-sex

• Workplace Changes

  • Jobs shifting away from men
  • NYT article on women outearning men
  • Jonathan Rauch predicts…
  • Womenomics:Growing workforce clout
  • Women majority of workforce
  • Recession pushing men into minority of workforce

• * Key Reports

  • Australia’s report on boys falling behind
  • Gender gaps in Calif. public universities
  • State of American Manhood
  • ACE’s report on race and gender gaps
  • Mortenson’s famous “for every 100 girls..”
  • “Perfect Storm” report from ETS
  • Report on girls reveals boy lapses
  • Wilmette Public Schools report
  • Edina schools probe into gender gaps
  • Economists explain context
  • DOE report on college gender gaps
  • IWF report on boys

• * Good Contacts

  • The Boys Project
  • Boys and School site
  • Peg Tyre’s new book
  • Michael Gurian’s site
  • single-sex school site
  • Joe Manthey website
  • Boys Read
  • boysrockreading
  • Real Men Read
  • Getting Boys to Read
  • books and boys
  • Leonard Sax’s site
  • Good guide for parents

• * Reading About Boys

  • Noguera’s “The Trouble With Black Boys”
  • Newkirk’s great book on the boy literacy lapses
  • The Sexual Paradox
  • Good guide for parents

• Blue-collar whites

  • English problem
  • American problem
  • Blue collar guys unable to find mates

• Gender learning differences?

  • Skeptic Dan Willingham
  • Skeptic: Lise Eliot
  • Doubts about brain research

• Latinos

  • Males disappearing from college campuses

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