Tag Archive: Boys

Empowering boys in an age of crisis

May 21, 2015 Published by

An updated edition of Dr. Paul D. Slocumb’s Hear Our Cry: Boys in Crisis explores familial, social, and media influences on an increasingly embattled population—boys. The majority of mass killings in the United States are committed by men, and almost every mass shooting at a school has been committed by…

Why do more males get identified for special education?

February 18, 2015 Published by

Approximately 50% of the student population is female, and 50% is male. Yet the majority of students in special education tend to be male, and 85% of educators in America are female. Simply from a numbers perspective, this does not make sense. The male and female student population are approximately equal;…