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Why boys need parents

February 10, 2012

National News Clips

  • Education Gap Grows Between Rich and Poor, Studies Say
    New York Times
    February 9, 2012
  • Study: Parents' Education Better Defense Against Adolescent Obesity Than Wealth
    Bay State Citizen
    February 9, 2012
  • 100 Black Men of Augusta focuses on mentoring black youth
    The Augusta Chronicle
    February 9, 2012
  • Kids show cultural gender bias
    Physorg.com
    February 9, 2012
  • "What It Takes" E-Mentoring Call to Action
    blacknews.com
    February 9, 2012
  • Knight Foundation grant to help train tomorrow's African American leaders
    Pride Source
    February 9, 2012
  • Utah lawmaker wants to ban talk of contraception in schools
    Salt Lake Tribune
    February 8, 2012
  • Teen Pregnancies Hit New Low, but Disparities Remain
    NPR Shots
    February 8, 2012
  • At cash-strapped schools, obesity rules
    Futurity.org
    February 7, 2012
  • Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM) Announces Adolescent Vaccine Project Grant Recipients
    Newswise
    February 7, 2012
  • The sexualization of children and what schools can do about it
    Washington Post
    February 7, 2012
  • Anger bubbles up in Congress over anti-obesity ads targeting soda
    Los Angeles Times
    February 7, 2012
  • Study: Child Abuse Affects More U.S. Kids than SIDS
    Time Heartland
    February 6, 2012
  • Business leaders back early education as economic development
    Mainebiz
    February 6, 2012
  • Junk food widely available at U.S. elementary schools despite anti-obesity push
    Washington Post
    February 6, 2012
  • Hart: Teaching kids how to play outside is money well spent
    Houston Chronicle
    February 5, 2012
  • Sex-ed less effective in red states, study says
    MSNBC
    February 6, 2012
  • Many Hits, Rather Than A Big One, Pose Greatest Concussion Risk
    NPR Shots Blog
    February 3, 2012
  • Colorado lawmakers delay considering nation’s toughest restrictions on trans fats at schools
    Washington Post
    February 2, 2012
  • School-Based Health Centers Reap Benefits
    Governing the States and Localities
    February 1, 2012

Opinion

  • Wisconsin Set to Overturn Healthy Youth Act in Favor of Abstinence-Only Programming
    RH Reality Check
    February 8, 2012
  • Halting the childhood obesity epidemic requires support of many communities
    The Hill
    February 7, 2012
  • Yes, Black Males Are Different, but Different Is Not Deficient
    Education Week
    February 3, 2012
  • School food may not be so cool
    Washington Post
    February 2, 2012

POINT

  • The voices of young black males
    By Tracey Sparrow and Abby Sparrow

COUNTERPOINT

  • Blaming the Victims in Their Own Voices; Phi Delta Kappan Does Disservice to African-Americans
    By Amy Wilkins, America's Wire Writers Group
    February 9, 2012

Studies

  • Elementary Schools Are Making Some Progress in Efforts to Prevent Obesity, But Still Have Work To Do
    New Research Examines Nutrition and Physical Activity in Nation’s Elementary Schools
    The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools

Events

  • "The Interrupters" Premieres on Frontline February 14
    "Best Documentary of 2011" shows how "violence interrupters" stop the transmission of violence
    Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

International News

AFGHANISTAN

  • The Dancing Boys of Afghanistanr Examines Sexual Abuse in Afghanistan
    Huffington Post
    February 8, 2012

AUSTRALIA

  • More boys falling victim to eating disorders as messages mixed
    The Australian
    February 8, 2010
  • Sexual behaviour in children: What's normal?
    BrisbaneTimes.com
    February 7, 2012

BAHAMAS

  • Boys Conference to focus on the value of making right choices
    The Freeport News
    February 9, 2012

SCOTLAND

  • Game plan to close gender gap in Scottish schools
    Scotsman.com
    February 5, 2012

UK

  • Single-sex or co-educational schools for girls and boys?
    BBC News
    February 6, 2012

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