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By Richard Whitmire — December 30, 2009 4 min read
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Uncategorized | [The General Topic](#general) | [Literacy ](#literacy)| [College Admission Preferences](#admission) | [College Dropouts](#dropouts) | [College Years](#collegeyears) | [Minority Boys](#minority) | [Changing Economics](#economics) | [Pushback Movement ](#pushback) | [Schools That Work for Boys](#schoolsboys) | [Male Teachers](#maleteach) | [Social Consequences](#consequences) | [Math/Science](#mathscience) | [Single-Sex Schools ](#singlesex)| [Workplace Changes ](#workplace)| [Key Reports](#keyreports) | [Good Contacts](#contacts) | [Reading About Boys](#reading) | [Blue-collar Whites](#blue) | [Gender learning differences?](#differences) | [Latinos](#latinos)

Uncategorized

NYT magazine cover story

The General Topic

Australia’s report on boys falling behind

Report on girls reveals boy lapses

State of American Manhood

Mortenson’s famous “for every 100 girls..”

Massachusetts boys

*High school dropout problem

Gender imbalances in Chicago elite schools

*Gender issues go beyond race and class

Jonathan Rauch predicts...

Economists explain context

DOE report on college gender gaps

Maine boys

Kleinfeld: State of American Boyhood

IWF report on boys

*Why the boy troubles are ignored

Kleinfeld/Mortenson data

Literacy

Boys behind in reading and writing

illinois reading exams

*Boys barely ahead in math, far behind in literacy

*My New Republic piece

*Editorial on literacy

*Writing problems

College Admission Preferences

U.S. News documenting admissons preferences

*Why women aren’t suing over boy preferences

Time looks at admission preferences

*Affirmative action for men

College Dropouts

black women exceeding white men

College Years

*Debate on college numbers

Gender gaps in Calif. public universities

Calif study -- a follow-up

ACE’s report on race and gender gaps

NYT profile of new campus reality

Chicago gender research on high school and college

Florida situation

Gender graduation gaps among minorities

Canadian research into campus imbalances

Urban Institute report on minorities

Projections of widening gaps

Predictions of future college enrollment

*Editorial on California trends

Mortenson on college trends

*Chronicle commentary on JMU imbalances

*Starting football to attract guys?

DOE report on college gender gaps

Minority Boys

Noguera’s “The Trouble With Black Boys”

ACE’s report on race and gender gaps

Black males on campus

Chicago gender research on high school and college

Gender graduation gaps among minorities

McWhorter’s hip-hop book

Schott foundation report

*Obama and black boys

Changing Economics

“Perfect Storm” report from ETS

Jobs shifting away from men

*Heightened importance of what women study

Jonathan Rauch predicts...

Economists explain context

Goldin book on impact of education

Women majority of workforce

Recession pushing men into minority of workforce

Pushback Movement

*My Press Club panel with Sara Mead

Education Sector report denying boy problems

USA Today editorial response to AAUW

*My OJR response to the AAUW

AAUW’s latest “pushback” report

*Pushback movement

*Debate on college numbers

*Pushback editorial

Mortenson on college trends

Editorial response to AAUW report

Editorial response to AAUW report

*Why the boy troubles are ignored

Schools That Work for Boys

NYC all-boys charter school

Male Teachers

male teachers disappearing

Social Consequences

NYT article on women outearning men

Dating changes

Sax’s “Failure to Launch”

Jonathan Rauch predicts...

Census: More women childless

Womenomics:Growing workforce clout

New (and unsettling) gamesmenship

Marriageable mates

More on marrying down

In recent years, men less likely to marry down?

Blue collar guys unable to find mates

Women majority of workforce

More women parenting alone

Recession pushing men into minority of workforce

Math/Science

*Boys barely ahead in math, far behind in literacy

Sax’s theory about unbalanced college majors

Single-Sex Schools

*Schools unprepared for single-sex experiment

NYT magazine on single sex

Leonard Sax’s reply to NYT story

*Warning signs on single-sex

Workplace Changes

Jobs shifting away from men

NYT article on women outearning men

Jonathan Rauch predicts...

Womenomics:Growing workforce clout

Women majority of workforce

Recession pushing men into minority of workforce

Key Reports

Australia’s report on boys falling behind

Gender gaps in Calif. public universities

State of American Manhood

ACE’s report on race and gender gaps

Mortenson’s famous “for every 100 girls..”

“Perfect Storm” report from ETS

Report on girls reveals boy lapses

Wilmette Public Schools report

Edina schools probe into gender gaps

Economists explain context

DOE report on college gender gaps

IWF report on boys

Good Contacts

The Boys Project

Boys and School site

Peg Tyre’s new book

Michael Gurian’s site

single-sex school site

Joe Manthey website

Boys Read

boysrockreading

Real Men Read

Getting Boys to Read

books and boys

Reading About Boys

Noguera’s “The Trouble With Black Boys”

Newkirk’s great book on the boy literacy lapses

The Sexual Paradox

Blue-collar Whites

English problem

American problem

Blue collar guys unable to find mates

Gender learning differences?

Skeptic Dan Willingham

Skeptic: Lise Eliot

Doubts about brain research

Latinos

Males disappearing from college campuses

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