All-boys and all-girls camps offer kids the chance to grow, learn, take risks and excel without the pressures of impressing the opposite sex.
Keeping boys hooked on phonics
28/10/2010 By Leave a Comment
[Malkin Dare is the President of the Society for Quality Education.] Boys used to do as well as (or better than) girls in school, but now they’re doing much worse, as reported in the recent Globe and Mail newspaper series “Failing boys and the powder keg of politics“. The series advanced a number of theories to [...]
Boys adrift – The challenge of teaching boys
03/09/2010 By Leave a Comment
A number of years ago I was leading a school review at a medium-sized rural boarding school in cottage country in central Ontario. As part of my usual drill, I was interviewing a group of parents about what they liked/disliked about the school and why they had chosen to send their children there. One mom [...]
