Interesting article in the Huffington Post by Lisa Bloom, who has written a book called , "Swagger: 10 Urgent Rules for Raising Boys in an Era of Failing Schools, Mass Joblessness and Thug Culture". (Provocative title, no?) Bloom, a lawyer and television journalist, focuses on the national under achievement of boys across racial and economic lines, and "the cultural [...]
Here's a list of "Boy Books", courtesy of the Eagle Academy Foundation, who hosted its third annual "Saving Our Sons" Professional Development Institute Conference this week in New York City. The Foundation has established and runs a series of all male, grades 6 through 12, college-preparatory schools in challenged, urban communities. They've opened three schools in New York City [...]
Today's NY Daily News features a piece by Rishawn Biddle, author and editor of online education news magazine Dropout Nation, and Richard Whitmire, an author of books about educating boys. Biddle and Whitmire use the presidential campaigns' very public debate about who has done more to help women to suggest that the candidates should be more worried about helping [...]