education

Because of Stereotypes, Black Boys Adjust Better Socially Than Black Girls in Suburban Schools

Black boys in the suburbs appear to have a much easier time assimilating and being accepted because the stereotypes about African-American male children help them in social situations, while the stereotypes for black girls harm them.

– Oct 24, 2013

[Dr. Ivor Is In] Digital Media Check-ups & The New Thing I’m Prescribing to My Patients This Year

It’s back to school time in our house so we are clearing out the summer-learning cobwebs and trying to get back into our school-time routine....

– Sep 4, 2013

Cuz He’s Black: When African American Boys Ready Themselves For a War We Can’t Prepare Them For

Really, I have no words to add to what poet Javon Johnson says in this, his poem, “Cuz He’s Black.” All the emotion, all the...

– Aug 30, 2013

Saving Our Sons: The Cliffnotes Version of My Ebony Series on Black Boys

By NICK CHILES When I decided to become a journalist about three decades ago as a junior at Yale, I envisioned myself stomping across the...

– Jun 20, 2013

Bump the Princeton Mom Letter: What I Want MY Daughters To Know About Love at College

Here’s what Susan Patton, a nice, Upper East Side Jewish mom who graduated Princeton Class ’77, wants my daughters to know: when they get to...

– Apr 2, 2013
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