the boys initiative

April 16, 2012

News Clips

• Education Report: California lawmakers to reconsider "zero-tolerance" student discipline laws
  Mercury News
  April 15, 2012
• What We Can Learn From a Young Boy's Cardboard Arcade
  Business Week
  April 12, 2012
• Kids Will Have To Cut Serious Calories To Halt Obesity Trend
  NPR
  April 12, 2012
• Men Are Becoming the Undereducated Gender
  Bloomberg Business Week
  April 11, 2012
• Award Winning Urologist and Pioneer Dr. Phillip Werthman, Warns of Testosterone Therapy Dangers for Men
  San Francisco Chronicle
  April 11, 2012
• Why Boys Fail Honored with Education Book Award from Literacy News
  Amazon Books Blog
  April 11, 2012
  Editors Note: The author, Richard Whitmire, is a member of The Boys Initiative Advisory Board
• Prostate Cancer Prevention Begins When Men Are Boys
  Huffington Post
  April 10, 2012
• Sexual Abuse May Put Boys at Risk for Unsafe Sex
  US News
  April 10, 2012
• Has The Saturation Point For Under-26 Coverage Been Reached?
  Kaiser Health News
  April 10, 2012
• Birthrate for U.S. teens is lowest in history
  USA Today
  April 10, 2012
• Teachers biased against girls in math
  UPI
  April 9, 2012
• ‘Heat shock’ protein halts muscle disease DMD in boys
  Futurity
  April 9, 2012
• MTV Audience Encouraged to “GYT”: National Campaign Encourages Young People to “Get Yourself Tested” for STDs, Including HIV
  Kaiser Health News
  April 9, 2012
• Why Do Boys and Girls Burn Out?
  Education Week
  April 9, 2012
• Early puberty taking toll on boys choirs
  The Seattle Times
  April 8, 2012
• Students At Detroit All Boys High School Protest For Better Education; Suspended From School
  Love my Black
  April 2, 2012

Reports

• Report: A black male disabled student is most likely to be suspended
  KPCC
  April 10, 2012
  Read the report: The Civil Rights Project
• A Perfect Storm of Opportunity: The California Community Foundation’s BLOOM Initiative Seeks to Change the Landscape for Black Male Youth
  Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families

Reviews

• Reviews of the movie "Bully"

Opinion

• Empowering Our Black Boys
  Huffington Post
  April 15, 2012
• Growing into manhood
  Sentinel and Enterprise
  April 15, 2012
• I went to some of D.C.’s better schools. I was still unprepared for college.
  Washington Post
  April 13, 2012
• Young, Black, Male, and Stalked by Bias
  New York Times
  April 15, 2012
• POINT/COUNTERPOINT
• POINT
  Caring, Romantic American Boys
  New York Times
  April 6, 2012
• COUNTERPOINT
  Isn't It Romantic?
  Wall Street Journal
  April 13, 2012
• Good Is Good: Do Teen Boys Want Love, Not Sex?
  Tom Matlack
  April 12, 2012

• Sexual Health Roundup: States Have Made Little Progress on Sex Education
  Reproductive Health Reality Check
  April 9, 2012
• Ignore 'The Mama's Boy Myth': Keep Your Boys Close
  New Hampshire Public Radio
  April 8, 2012
• Children Can Never Be Safe in Adult Prisons
  New York Times
  April 8, 2012

International News
AUSTRALIA

• Inquiry looms as more suicides linked to sexual abuse by Catholic priests
  The Age
  April 14, 2012

CANADA

• Free HPV vaccine urged for boys
  CBC News
  April 15, 2012

ENGLAND

• Hospitals hit by rise of the 'manorexic': Male eating disorder cases up 16% in a year
  The Mail
  April 10, 2012

INDIA

• Girls outshine boys, bag top ranks
  The Times of India
  April 9, 2012
• Girls outnumber boys in Patna University
  The Times of India
  April 8, 2012