Thursday, January 26, 2012 
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-climbing and sharpening their speaking skills with a debate. This time Gareth faces a new mission: to get the boys reading.
Monday, December 12, 2011 Are young people better off than their parents? At least when it comes to income, the answer depends on gender. Today's young women make $1.17 for every $1 their moms earned back in 1980. Young men, however, are earning 10 cents per hour less than their fathers did 30 years ago, new research shows.
Sunday, March 13, 2011 Boys are now among the most challenging groups with whom we work as psychotherapists. During the past two decades, boyhood has received special attention, and with good reason: boyhood is being radically redefined. As a result, the number of vulnerable boys who require our attention and care has increased significantly. Some of them are just entering kindergarten; others are graduating from high school or college and manoeuvering their way in a world of work that has increasingly fewer places for them; a decreasing number are in graduate school. Ever more are disconnected, disaffiliated and adrift.
Boys, Boys' Education, Boys' Health, Education Outcomes, Gender & Masculinities, Journal Articles, Resources: Boys, Resources: Boys' Education, Resources: Boys' Health, Resources: Education Outcomes, Resources: Gender & Masculinities, Resources: Unemployment, Resources: Work, Unemployment, Work in Resources, Topics & Issues Tuesday, March 8, 2011 The proposal for a White House Council on Boys to Men was originally inspired by a discussion initiated by the White House Boards and Commissions Director Joanna Martin to Dr. Warren Farrell, inquiring of his interest in advising the White House Council on Women and Girls, given his background with the National Organization for Women. Shortly after, Dr. Farrell created a multi-partisan Commission of thirty-four prominent authors, educators, researchers and practitioners to accomplish three goals: investigate the status of boys and their journey into manhood; identify both surface and underlying problems confronting boys and men; create a blueprint toward solutions. This proposal is the result.
Friday, February 18, 2011 Anthropologist Dr Herbert Gayle visited Ardenne High School in St Andrew on Wednesday to enforce that young men who are educated have more options than those who are not. Gayle lectures in the Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona. He said he had three messages - one for the students, one for teachers and one for parents. "Keep yourselves in school, struggle, whatever it takes, make sure you are in school so you have maximum advantage," Gayle reminded the boys before he left. To the teachers, he said: "Teachers in my hearing, do not ever, ever, pursue a policy where you have one standard for girls and one for boys. Your job is to reshape the society, have one standard and let the boys reach up to it because they are bright!" And to the parents: "In order for boys to do well, they need one and a half times more food than girls." The crowd, made up of hundreds of Ardenne boys, exploded in cheers at that remark.