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Boy Scouts vs. Girl Scouts
I was a Brownie and then a Girl Scout at Ravinia Elementary School. We learned to fold a flag and to knit squares, which our leader...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 27, 20172 min read


In Arab world, girls rule in school: Why?
Female students outnumber males two to one at the University of Jordan Across the Arab world, girls rule in school, writes Amanda Ripley...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 28, 20172 min read


Taking the pee out of physics
It’s time to take the pee out of physics, argues a group of Australian scientists. Starting physics courses by studying projectile motion...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 20, 20171 min read


Coming to theaters: Lady of the Flies
Lord of the Flies, beloved of high school English teachers and nobody else, was turned into not-very-good movies in 1963 and again in...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 1, 20172 min read


Missing: college men
Men are a minority on college campuses, reports Hechinger’s Jon Marcus. In the 1970s, when I was in college, men outnumbered women by 58...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 17, 20172 min read
Male Teachers
At my elementary school, all the K-3 teachers were women and all but 1 or 2 of the Grades 4-6 teachers were men. In junior high and high...

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 25, 20171 min read
Boys to educated men
Boys Latin Of Philadelphia Charter School will be featured on NBC’s Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly. The motto of the school, which...

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 8, 20171 min read
Utah girls demand their own football teams
If high schools fund a boys’ football team, they should fund a girls’ football team, claims a Title IX lawsuit by parents of six Utah...

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 1, 20172 min read


Boys lag in reading, writing
“Three of four African-American boys in California classrooms failed to meet reading and writing standards” on state exams, reports Matt...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 8, 20171 min read


Where are the college men?
Fewer men are choosing college, reports Monte Whaley in the Denver Post. In 2015, 61.2 percent of Colorado’s female high school graduates...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 7, 20172 min read


Move to learn
Kids are spending too much time sitting indoors writes Angela Hanscom, a pediatric occupational therapist, in the Washington Post‘s...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 13, 20172 min read
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