Stop Penalizing Boys for Not Being Able to Sit Still at School

More news that points out the obvious. by Jessica Lahey – The Atlantic Magazine Something is rotten in the state of boys’ education, and I can’t help but suspect that the pattern I have seen in my classroom may have something to do with a collective failure to adequately educate boys. The statistics are grim….

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WHY FATHERHOOD MATTERS

Fatherhood is also classically aspirational. It’s a marker of class, pure and simple. Fatherlessness is a real crisis even as fatherhood gains this wild significance. In 2008, 41 percent of births involved unmarried women compared with 28 percent in 1990. Fatherlessness as a condition has been linked with virtually every social ill you can name…

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The Female Child Molester

Wow! Imagine if this were a male teacher. The New York Daily News reported: A California high school teacher has been busted for underage sex – just days after giving birth to a baby allegedly fathered by her student lover. Laura Elizabeth Whitehurst, 28, was detained by cops in her Redlands home on Monday evening….

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Black Men Want Committed Relationships?

I found this at NPR:   So Single Black Men Want Commitment. Really? by GENE DEMBY June 08, 2013 We recently found that single black men were much more likely to say they were looking for a long-term relationship (43 percent) compared to single black women (25 percent). Those numbers come from our big poll of African-Americans‘…

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No One Can “Have It All”

I found a great article in the latest issue of Esquire Magazine called WHY MEN STILL CAN’T HAVE IT ALL written by Richard Dorment. “Lately, the raging debate about issues of “work-life balance” has focused on whether or not women can “have it all.” Entirely lost in this debate is the growing strain of work-life balance on…

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The Biological Kidnapper

Welcome to 2013. We live in an era where everything is suspicious, even the father of his own children is a suspect. Remember, if you see something…. A Prince William County man says he was suspected by Walmart security of possibly kidnapping his three young daughters — all because they aren’t the same race. Joseph,…

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