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Join the conversation! What Works For Boys? hosted by Author, Community Organizer, Social Worker, Denise Bolds as she shares her observations and reactions from New York University's Educational Summit featuring Dr. Pedro Noguera. May 5th at 8PM (ES…
Hello to mothers of boys! Please follow us on twitter at bringingupboys for the latest facts and research on raising and educating successful boys and become a fan to Junior Magazine on Facebook. Of course we want you to subscribe to the only magazi…
Need help with your disorganized son? Check out That Crumpled Paper was Due Last Week by Ana Homayoun. Another expert you will read about in Junior, the magazine about bringing up successful boys. Order your subscriptions at www.juniorthemagazine.co…
Check out the next issue of Junior Magazine. In our next issue (Sports in the Lives of Boys) we make a case for Why Boys and Movement Go Hand in Hand! Recess is Required for Boys. Visit www.juniorthemagazine.com to subscribe to the only publication…
Tips for Teaching Boys to Write
Children's book author, Ralph Fletcher has a few ideas. What keeps boys from putting pen to paper? What's getting in the way? First, identify the kids, mostly boys, with what teachers call "poor grapho-moter skills"…
Junior, the publication about bringing up successful boys to host Townhall Meeting with Award-winning Journalist Peg Tyre
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 8:00 PM EST
Journalist and writer Peg Tyre is a prize-winning investigative reporter and the autho…
A great read for boys, Rules for My Unborn Son by Walker Lamond! I will be interviewing him in an upcoming issue of Junior, the magazine about bringing up successful boys.
42% of preteen and teen boys routinely play violent video games. Another reason to give boys books!
Hands-on, active learning is very important for boys. Books are great, the content is great, but books alone do not best serve boys. Boys need to hold, weigh, move and measure their surroundings. They need to explore real objects with mass, texture…
Junior, the magazine about bringing up successful boys is proud to sponsor Summit Series for Families online Book Club! Join the discussion! www.summitseriesforfamilies.com. Renowned child development expert Dr. David Elkind, author of The Power of…
Dr. Meeker in her book, Boys Should be Boys, speaks clearly about the benefits of faith in the lives of boys. God is good for boys! Boys who have a strong faith and prayer life are less likely to be sexually active too soon, less likely to become pr…
Transitioning into manhood is not a natural process. It takes a man to raise a boy to be a man. If boys are not properly initiated into manhood, they are destined to embrace a subverted view of what being a man is. Women can describe what they think…
As the school year begins anew food for thought from Junior, the magazine about bringing up successful boys. "Many boys are at a disadvantage in school from the start. Most will pass through preschool, early childhood education, elementary and middl…
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- What is your twitter URL?
- http://www.twitter.com/bringingupboys
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- "There is no industrialized country in the world where boys are doing better than girls in total markers." Michael Gurian
"Boys are in trouble, not just boys of color, not only boys of poverty, but boys themselves." Dr. Judith Kleinfeld, Director of the Boy's Project
Boys are struggling not just in the US, but all over the world.
The stats tell us that something scary is happening to boys and young men. Junior is an innovative publication for engaged parents and educators working to improve the educational outcome of boys. Every issue is filled with interviews, actionable solutions and best-practices from leading authors, researchers, educators and parents.
Why a publication about bringing up and educating boys? The data on today's boys:
Boys get 70% of all D's & F's
Boys account for 90% of all classroom behavior issues
Boys represent 80% of all high school dropouts
Millions of boys are on Ritalin and other mind-bending drugs
1/3 of men ages 22-34 still live at home with their parents supporting them in some way
Two-thirds of all special education students are boys
Boys are 4 to 5 times more likely to be diagnosed with ADD or ADHD
The dropout rates for Black boys is as high as 50% in most urban cities
More Black boys will receive their GED in prison than who will graduate with a BA from college
On any given day more Black men are in prison 34% than who are at work 30%
Junior tackles these troubling trends head on and shares information to help boys achieve success in school and beyond.
Some of the experts featured in Junior include Michael Gurian, Leonard Sax, MD, PhD, Dr. Michael Thompson, Peg Tyre and Dr. Michael Franklin, President of Morehouse College.
- What kinds of things do you typically Twitter about?
- education, parenting boys, middle-school girls, bullying, the developmental needs of boys
- What are your areas of interest?
- mommyhood, business, blogging, work-at-home, writing
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