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Do We Have a Problem Here?

admin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:00:44 +0000

I think we do. From this post at Carpe Diem. Links to Federal DOE data from the post.

But I’ll ask a somewhat different question. What does this mean about how boys function — and how they’re treated — in K-12 schools?

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“You can never appreciate how irrational the system is…

admin — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:00:26 +0000

until you’ve lived with it.” So says the Chancellor of the New York City School system.

The article it’s from, The Rubber Room (New Yorker, 8/31/09), is causing quite a stir.

We learn that in New York City, there are seven rooms, at least one in each borough, where over 600 teachers spend their time [...]

Oh My!

admin — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:00:31 +0000

Is it true that bad news comes in clumps? (If you’ve got clumps, you’ve got more serious trouble than we can help with!) It does seem as though this might just be Bad News Week. Certainly yesterday’s post set the mood to “gray”!

Click on this link — this one here — only if you [...]

“The School on Heart’s Content Road”

admin — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:00:18 +0000

The novelist Carolyn Chute doesn’t have a working phone, a fax or a computer. She writes on a washtub-size electric typewriter that was probably state of the art in the ’70s. Ms. Chute (pronounced CHOOT) and her husband, Michael, live in a small compound at the end of an unpaved road in this rural Maine [...]

Males the more fragile sex?

admin — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:00:12 +0000

The first clue was how difficult it was becoming to find enough young boys to cobble together a baseball team.

Then, women in prenatal groups started remarking on how everyone in their groups was having girls.

Humanity at risk: are the males going first?