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PART
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ARE
BOYS IN TROUBLE?
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| Are
Boys In Trouble? |
- Violent
boys have made headlines all over the country - in Columbine,
Jonesboro, and Springfield. What does not often make the headlines
is that boys are 85% of all suicide victims in this country,
that they are 50% more likely than girls to be held back in
school and that they are less likely than girls to finish
college. Are boys in trouble? What can schools do to help?
On this edition
of The Merrow Report, John Merrow talks with James
Garbarino, Co-Director of the Family
Life Development Center at Cornell University and author of
Lost
Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them
and Michael Gurian, a
family therapist and author of The Good Son: Shaping the Moral
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ARTICLES
"Heterogeneity
of Popular Boys: Antisocial and Prosocial Configurations,"
Developmental Psychology, January, 2000.
"Tag,
You're Not It: Tips for a Gentler Schoolyard," Tom Kuntz,
The New York Times, 12/12/99.
"The
Silent Gender Gap," Cornelius Riordan, Education Week,
11/17/99.
"Boys
Will Be (Good) Boys," Gwen J. Broude, Christian Science
Monitor, 11/15/99.
"Boys
Struggle to Be Boys," William J. Cromie, The Harvard
University Gazette, 8/6/99.
"The
Kids are All Right," John Merrow, Education Week, 4/28/99.
"Behind
the 'Mask of Masculinity,'" Debra Viadero, Education Week,
5/13/98.
"Where
the Boys Are," Christina Hoff Sommers, Education Week,
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| Part 2
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| Report
On Teacher Quality |
Most states
have tough rules about who can teach. Unfortunately, most of
those rules have loopholes so glaring that just about anybody
can get a teaching job. Education Week has just come
out with its fourth annual report on school reform, this one
focusing on teacher quality. Thousands of unlicensed teachers
are teaching millions of students all over the country. What
are states doing about this? What needs to be done?
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