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Why boys need a boyhood to become good men | essentialkids.com.au

January 8, 2014
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Why boys need a boyhood to become good men | essentialkids.com.au

Boys struggling to find their self-worth ... Photo: Getty Images Given the current deep community outpourings of concern for the senseless violence present on Australian streets at night, the disturbing numbers of little boys being suspended and expel...
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Why schools are failing our boys

May 20, 2013
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Why schools are failing our boys

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The system is leaving boys behind ... Photo: Getty Images

Boys will be boys, they tell us, but how many of us actually take this adage to heart and embrace it?

I am the mother of four boys, now all adults. If I think back to their childhoods and adolescence, it’s a whirlwind of...
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The Boys at the Back – NYTimes.com

February 2, 2013
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The Boys at the Back – NYTimes.com

Illustration by Ben Javens   Boys score as well as or better than girls on most standardized tests, yet they are far less likely to get good grades, take advanced classes or attend college. Why? A study coming out this week in The Journal of ...
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Education system is biased towards girls, yet we do nothing

December 22, 2012
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Education system is biased towards girls, yet we do nothing

The Weekend Australian, Saturday December 22, 2012 Australia’s feminised curriculum puts boys at a significant disadvantage ANGELA SHANAHAN IT is an experience I have relived eight times, the stomach churning anticipation as we wait in agony for...
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Enforced conformity in class condemns boys to mediocrity (USA)

July 9, 2012
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Enforced conformity in class condemns boys to mediocrity (USA)

Henry V is one of Shakespeare's most appealing characters. He was rambunctious when young and courageous when older. But suppose Henry went to an American school. By about the third week of kindergarten, Henry's teacher would be sending notes home sayi...
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Girls outperforming boys in "masculine" subjects (UK)

July 5, 2012
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Girls outperforming boys in "masculine" subjects (UK)

Girls are outperforming boys in traditionally “masculine” subjects such as engineering and construction, despite repeated attempts to close the education gender gap, it emerged today. New figures show teenage girls are more likely to achie...
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Robyn Urback on shocking anti-male hatred on the SFU campus (Canada)

May 20, 2012
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Robyn Urback on shocking anti-male hatred on the SFU campus (Canada)

The student union at Simon Fraser University in B.C. has made the apparently contentious decision to finance the creation of a Men’s Centre on campus. Motivated, surely, by deep-seeated patriarchal values, the union approved a budget of $30,000 t...
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Gareth Malone’s Extraordinary School for Boys

January 26, 2012
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Gareth Malone’s Extraordinary School for Boys

About The Program Choirmaster Gareth Malone teaches in a primary school in Essex for one term. It is a school like many across Britain, with a significant gap between girls' and boys' achievement in literacy. Last week we saw Gareth and the boys tree-...
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Gareth Malone’s Extraordinary School for Boys (UK)

January 26, 2012
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Gareth Malone’s Extraordinary School for Boys (UK)

About The Program Choirmaster Gareth Malone teaches in a primary school in Essex for one term. It is a school like many across Britain, with a significant gap between girls' and boys' achievement in literacy. Last week we saw Gareth and the boys tree-...
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Sex discrimination at London School of Economics

November 13, 2011
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Tom Martin is making headlines around the world for bringing a £50,000 sex discrimination lawsuit against the prestigious London School of Economics (LSE), claiming its gender studies Masters programme he enrolled on consistently promotes biassed...
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Sex discrimination at London School of Economics (UK)

November 13, 2011
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Sex discrimination at London School of Economics (UK)

Tom Martin is making headlines around the world for bringing a £50,000 sex discrimination lawsuit against the prestigious London School of Economics (LSE), claiming its gender studies Masters programme he enrolled on consistently promotes biassed...
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Schoolboys thrive on risk at recess

October 21, 2011
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Schoolboys thrive on risk at recess

On a Razor's edge … students show their scooter skills at Tudor House. Photo: Brendan Esposito FOR generations children have complained that school can be cruel and unusual punishment. Now it seems some headmasters are listening, introducing mo...
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