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Two important developments in the World of Men this week:

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'FEARS are growing of a generation of young men lost to education after data yesterday showed boys are increasingly turning their backs on the schools system.

While girls remain more likely to continue in full-time education after the age of 16, a report from Careers Wales found that boys are increasingly likely to leave the system altogether.

And though the majority of young people continue with their education once they reach the legal age at which they can leave school, a study found that there has been a slight fall in the percentage of young people expected to go from year 13 into higher education.

The survey showed that, as in previous years, a larger proportion of girls than boys chose to continue in full-time education. The difference is most marked in year 11, with over 6% more girls than boys.'

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'Boys in Kentucky's schools need to work on reading, according to a national analysis of gender gaps in education being released Wednesday.

The Kentucky results generally mirror the national picture, which shows boys trailing girls on reading assessments in most states.

The report, which covers 2007-2008, was prepared by the Center on Education Policy, an independent education advocacy organization. It called the reading performance by boys "the most pressing gender-gap issue facing our schools."
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In 2008, however, 76 percent of fourth-grade girls tested at proficiency, while the percentage of boys at that level fell to 67 percent.

The difference was more dramatic among Kentucky eighth graders, with 74 percent of girls at proficiency in reading in 2008 compared to just 60 percent of boys. Meanwhile, among 10th graders, 68 percent of girls were at reading proficiency in 2008, compared to only 52 percent of boys.'

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'When it comes to reading, boys continue to lag behind girls, according to recent studies.

But it doesn't have to be that way, say a growing number of Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky teachers and education researchers. They say schools can close reading gaps by adhering to relatively simple strategies, including:

• Change what boys are required read at school and on tests.

• Give boys more choices.

• Get parents to push reading at home.

• Limit video game time.

• Teach reading comprehension and assign more writing in middle and high school grades; let teachers stray from teaching to state tests.

• Consider separating genders at high school.'

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'The focus was an emerging movement towards men's studies at universities. I think the desire to even out the time and money spent on studying issues unique to each sex -- Women's Studies consume more than 90 per cent of budgets for gender-specific research -- is well intentioned, but I suspect it is ultimately misguided.

What men need most is not to be studied but to be allowed to be men. It is not possible to save or revive masculinity by overanalyzing it.

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'The creation of the Foundation for Male Studies was announced on Wednesday at Wagner College in New York, along with a proposal for male studies as a new discipline. While gender studies, women’s studies and men’s studies already exist, the scholars behind the new discipline insist that colleges need to start fresh in order to examine the current state of boys and men.

The interdisciplinary study would examine the experience of modern males, particularly those under 35, in a moment in history when they are the minority of college graduates, the majority of suicide victims, have shorter life spans and increasingly suffer psychological problems.

To be sure, these are valid and interesting pursuits, deserving of our attention--now more than ever. However, it’s the distinction from current men’s studies programs that’s raising eyebrows.

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'A DOG-OWNER accused of rape claims he has been set up by a woman who changed her mind about selling her pet to him.

Stephen Tuggey, 42, is alleged to have crept into the 57-year-old’s bedroom and forced himself on her after arranging to drive more than 100 miles to bring her beloved dog back to South Wales to see her on her birthday.

She called police to her Cardiff home after her daughter saw blood on her dressing gown and she broke down saying she had been attacked.

But Tuggey told police who arrested him: “She consented – going up to bed together was her suggestion, she was waiting for me on the landing.”
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They still had a pub lunch together as planned but when they got back and he fell asleep, her mother started crying and said she wanted him out of the house.

Tuggey denies rape and sexual assault. The woman cannot be named.'

"The woman cannot be named." - but the man can.

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'The Maine Human Rights Commissions taking heat over a proposal to ban schools from enforcing gender divisions in sports teams, school organizations, bathrooms and locker rooms, saying forcing a student into a particular room or group because of their biological gender amounts to discrimination.

The issue came to light last year when the commission ruled that, under the Maine Human Rights Act, a school had discriminated against a 12-year-old transgender boy by denying him access to the girls' bathroom.

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'A Tennesee mother's decision to send her 7-year-old adopted son back to Russia, alone and with a note that she no longer wanted him, has horrified officials and adoption experts in both countries.

Angry Russian officials are calling for a halt to all U.S. adoptions until the two countries could hammer out a new agreement that spelled out the conditions and obligations for such adoptions.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called the boy's abrupt return "a monstrous deed." The Russian president told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos in an exclusive interview that he had a "special concern" about the recent treatment of Russian children adopted by Americans.

Torry Hansen of Shelbyville, Tenn., put 7-year-old Artyem Saviliev -- renamed Justin Artyem Hansen in the U.S. -- on a plane to Moscow's Domodedovo airport with a note in his pocket saying she ws returning him, that the boy had severe psychological problems and that the orphanage had lied about his condition.

Story here. How about that!? Geez, if you give a whit about them and teach them the way they need to be taught, boys CAN actually succeed and even EXCEL in school! Wow, what a novel concept! And it works for girls, too. It's just that that particular approach has been applied to all our public schools, and so, the results are well-known there: fast-diminishing graduation and college acceptance rates for boys while girls continue to increase their level of excellence -- at the boys' expense. Excerpt:

'Chicago – In Chicago, the graduation rate for African-American boys is about 40 percent, and only about half of all students are accepted to some form of college. The chances of young black men going to college – particularly young men from the poorest neighborhoods – are not good.

Story here. This shouldn't come as a surprise. I have no problem with women on the highest court, but to nominate someone based on gender is unacceptable. Excerpt:

'The National Organization for Women also weighed in on Stevens' retirement. The group called on the president to nominate a woman to the high court, which counts Justice Sotomayor and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg among its nine members.

"NOW is dedicated to achieving gender parity on the Supreme Court, and we call on President Obama to nominate a woman to fill this seat," NOW President Terry O'Neill said in a statement. "The Supreme Court is out of balance, with women making up a mere 22 percent of the bench. That's simply not enough."'

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'Eleven inmates have filed lawsuits against the Orangeburg-Calhoun Regional Detention Center in U.S. District Court over living conditions.

Inmates claim they’ve suffered malfunctioning toilets and showers, don’t receive prescription medication in a timely manner and have no emergency call system in their cells, among other things, according to complaints filed between Feb. 16 and March 15.

Robert Hooper, who chairs the Orangeburg-Calhoun Law Enforcement Commission, says some of the issues arose during the 2009 annual state Department of Corrections inspection.
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Last July, the Regional Detention Center was cited for housing sentenced and pre-trial inmates together. Other violations cited were the lack of two-way emergency intercom systems in individual cells and failure to give inmates required outdoor exercise time due to staffing shortages.

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'ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A self-described Wiccan had a man's phone number programmed in her cell phone under the word "sacrifice" before she stabbed him to death, then claimed he had tried to rape her, authorities said Thursday.

Angela Sanford, 30, is accused of killing 52-year-old Joel Leyba last month with a dagger after inviting him to join her in a Wiccan celebration of spring near a popular hiking trail east of Albuquerque.

She told police she stabbed Leyba three times in the stomach after he tied her up and tried to assault her.

But police say Leyba was stabbed 11 to 13 times, and a detective reviewing Sanford's cell phone found the nickname "sacrifice" instead of Leyba's name.

"It makes us absolutely confident there was something more here than her claims of self-defense," said Patrick Davis, a spokesman for the Bernalillo County district attorney's office.'

Article here. We post a lot of 'women behaving badly' articles, and a lot of examples of men being treated poorly, as second class citizens, and often even as sub-human. This article should be a shining example to anyone who doesn't think men deserve basic respect of the type of selflessness and heroism men are capable of. It would be easy to attribute his actions to outmoded ideas of chivalry and sacrifice, or to suggest he should never have risked his life in the first place, but I choose to view it as a doctor doing all in his power to help a patient, an example of the type of person, man or woman, that we should all wish there were more of it in the world. Excerpt:

'An Allentown man saved a suicidal woman's life but suffered extensive arm fractures when they fell 30 feet from the roof of a Lehigh Valley personal care facility on Monday.