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Kindergarteners in a play-based learning class raise their hands while participating in an activity at Symonds Elementary School in Keene, N.H. on Nov. 7, 2024.
For Too Many Boys, School Isn’t Working. Solutions Are in Reach
A special reporting project explores why boys, overall, are doing worse in school than girls—and what can be done to reverse the trend.
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Equity & Diversity Opinion Boys Initiative Briefing Today
Today's session written up by Education Week.
Richard Whitmire, May 17, 2011
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Equity & Diversity Opinion May 20: Teleseminar with Naomi Way
Way is author of Deep Secrets, another book that takes a look at the "boy code" said to limit boys' emotional ranges.
Richard Whitmire, May 11, 2011
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Equity & Diversity Opinion KIPP Coming Up Short on Black Boys?
Not the black boys who persist through the charters schools, but those who leave.
Richard Whitmire, March 31, 2011
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Equity & Diversity Opinion The Oregon Story
Oregon may offer some lessons for other rural areas where educators are trying to boost the college-going rate.
Richard Whitmire, March 29, 2011
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Equity & Diversity Opinion And Where Are the Sons of Plumbers?
Paucity of low-income students at elite colleges profiled at the Chronicle. (password protested). Truth is, those colleges are better at attracting low-income minorities than they are drawing in sons and daughters of the working class.
Richard Whitmire, March 28, 2011
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Equity & Diversity Opinion Changing Rural Gender Balances Prompting Divorces
New York Times does a great job of telling this story in Iowa.
Richard Whitmire, March 24, 2011
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Equity & Diversity Opinion Working Class White Boys ... Again
Why is this issue only written about abroad? The gaps are just as stark in this country.
Richard Whitmire, March 22, 2011
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Equity & Diversity Opinion Maytag Survey on Males and Females
Who has the brighter prospects after being laid off from the Maytag plants? Fascinating stuff here.
Richard Whitmire, March 17, 2011
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Equity & Diversity Opinion Working Class Children
This essay from Britain doesn't focus on boys, but we already know that white boys from blue collar families are really struggling there.
Richard Whitmire, March 2, 2011
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Equity & Diversity Opinion Valuable Survey on Blue Collar Whites
This is one of the most under-reported stories in the country. In Britain, where are gender gaps are mirrored, the declining fortunes of working class whites is a top story. But not in this country.
Richard Whitmire, February 22, 2011
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Equity & Diversity Opinion The Boys Initiative Launches!!
The Boys Initiative has launched. Take it for a test drive.
Richard Whitmire, February 10, 2011
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Equity & Diversity Opinion A Culture of Low Expectations -- For Working Class White Boys
Don't assume that the situation in this country is that different. It's just that in this country nobody focuses on this.
Richard Whitmire, January 21, 2011
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Equity & Diversity Opinion British Debate on Gender, Race and Class
What interests me about this unique focus coming out of Britain is my hunch that we'd find something similar if we ever looked for it in this country.
Richard Whitmire, January 4, 2011
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Federal Opinion The Significance of 'End of Men' Making Best-Of List
David Brooks names the best magazine essays of the year, and Hanna Rosin's Atlantic piece makes the short list.
Richard Whitmire, December 24, 2010
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