Director of Montessori preschool: “You do not automatically trust men around young children.”
Update 2/8/15: we've identified the director of this Montessori school, and the school as well. Stay tuned. If there is one thing that men's advocates tend to do well, it's make screenshots and keep records of what is said and done. Today I bring you another such example. It's not [...]
A School Practice We Should Do Away With That Disproportionately Harms Boys: Punishment by “Writing Sentences”
Treating writing as a punishment by having disciplined students write sentences is contrary to the goals of education.
Review of Marty Nemko’s article on boys’ education in Psychology Today
In these polarizing times, it is to our credit that we can occasionally find those with whom we both agree and disagree. With that I give you Dr. Marty Nemko's recent article in Psychology Today titled "The Problem With Boys," and my commentary on it. It begins: What changes would you recommend [...]
Nigel Bethel Reinstated After Dismissal for Defending Himself From Amber Battle
The scenario as it unfolded is entirely what we might have expected, and what happens all too often in many violent altercations between men and women
Wearing Thinner: The “But Men Get the Majority of Stem Degrees” Deflection
Welcome, dear readers. School is now in session. Before we begin the lecture please do a brief preclass exercise by spending a minute taking a hard look at this set of graphs on graduation rates by sex over the past forty years: Source: National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of Education Statistics, Table [...]
Feminist Bryce Covert at The Guardian explains why we should ignore men’s and boys’ education issues
Recently, I wrote an article asking why Feminist Barbara Ellen at the prominent British publication The Guardian condones the sexual assault of schoolboys. It wasn't hyperbole, and it wasn't meant rhetorically. On the contrary, Ellen laid out a long argument as to why older women (sometimes much older women) who have sex with [...]
UCAS chief Mary Cook steps up to address the lack of men in nursing and teaching
This article from Times Higher Education yields more evidence that men's issues have reached the ears of upper-level education officials in Britain (see this earlier AVFMS article for more examples of this phenomenon). The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) is an organization which British students must go through when applying for [...]
CDC: Autism rate spikes to 1 in 68; boys five times as likely to be diagnosed
Media outlets like CNN, USA Today, and ABC News are all abuzz about the recent press release from the Center of Disease Control advising the public that a recent CDC study concluded that the rate of autism spectrum disorder among children has risen from 1 in 88 to 1 in 68. [...]
Women Outnumber Men in Universities in Two-Thirds of Middle-East Countries
Not only are women not marginalized from educational institutions in the Middle-East, they are in fact better educated than most Middle-Eastern men.
Watch DOGS (Dads of Great Students): promoting father involvement and male role-models in elementary schools nationwide
Watch DOGS (Dads of Great Students) is a national program promoting father involvement and positive male role-models in elementary schools. It is sponsored by the National Center for Fathering and has been active since 1999. According to their official website there are over 3,793 active Watch DOGS programs in 46 states as [...]
