Data Shows Boys and Young Men Are Falling Behind

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Boys' educational achievement, mental health and transitions to adulthood indicate that many are not thriving.

Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 06:32 PM | 35 COMMENTS | permalink

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I guess this is why MAGA wants to rid the country of DEI?

#1 | Posted by FedUpWithPols at 2025-05-14 11:20 AM

Trump will address this by stopping data collection.

And men will blame anyone but themselves for their own shortcomings.

50 Years of "Draw-A-Scientist" Studies
Today, more than half of girls draw a woman when asked to draw a scientist, a number that's risen steadily since the 1960s.
www.edutopia.org

"Boys' educational achievement, mental health and transitions to adulthood indicate that many are not thriving."

Educational Achievement is Woke.
Mental Health is Woke.
Transition is Woke.
Thriving is Woke.

Old Yeller, his hair now dyed as white as a polar bear's beehind when contrasted with a deepening Oompa Loompa hue slathered onto his sagging features, propped-up at an odd angle once cinched into his girdle and thrust precipitously forward, teetering on those pesky lifts in his shoes, as he yammers and whines incessantly like Gloria Swanson in "Sunset Boulevard" ... yup, that's real masculinity for you, MAGAt style.

Democrats hate young men and masculinity. That has been their message for decades.

Thats why the Democrat leaders from Biden to Obama to George Stephanopoulus all oddly sit Priscilla like cross legged as silly well trained academics and prissy women seals. Democrats hate average Americans and the concept of men and boys. We've see it for years in every sly policy where they always make the policy to favor females and harm men. Compare Trump and the Saudis on stage to Democrat politicians that project unadulterated femininity.

"Thats why the Democrat leaders from Biden to Obama to George Stephanopoulus all oddly sit Priscilla like cross legged"

Imagine being so fragile in your masculinity that you are threatened by the way other men sit!

What in the hell has happened to Republican white men in this country?

So, the liberals changed the entire educational system by removing hands on education, making a majority of the work 'group work', de-emphasized testing - basically, removing the goal oriented motivation that aligns with male learning styles, and then removing recess and physical activities - all to be better aligned with female learning styles to close the male/female achievement gap.

And the result? Females are thriving and males are struggling - and males are increasingly turning away from the school based educational systems for vocational training. Women now make up 60% of college students - although total number of college students is falling.

Basically, the US chose to overhaul the US education system to cater towards female learning styles and it was successful - but, it came in part at the expense of males by decreasing their performance and interest in school.

"Thats why the Democrat leaders from Biden to Obama to George Stephanopoulus all oddly sit Priscilla like cross legged as silly well trained academics and prissy women seals.
#5 | Posted by Robson"

The school system focused on female learning styles also works out very well for short guys and guys with low T-levels like homosexuals (Obama included in this). The low-T allows them to sit still during puberty while most males will undergo wild hormone swings during this time and the resulting discipline by the school turning them off from education. In the case of Obama, who is homosexual per his letters to his ex-girlfriend - he also lowered his T-levels through chronic use of weed and cocaine (crack).

@#8 ... The school system focused on female learning styles ...

Got links?

I think he means this:

"From an early age, girls are taught to earn better grades than boys."
"Or can our boys simply not meet the same behavioral standards as girls?"
dailycollegian.com

Why would boys be able to meet the same standards as girls? As adults, men cannot meet the same behavioral standards as women. Men commit over 90% of violent crime and sexual assault.

You don't think they're taught this is acceptable as boys? What other explanation is there?

Men are simply worse people than women. They're less intelligent, less educated, and more violent.

"#9 | Posted by LampLighter"

Here are 2 -------. I know you won't actually read them so don't ask for more until you do.

www.amacad.org

www.ascd.org

"Men are simply worse people than women. They're more violent.
#10 | Posted by snoofy"

Black women commit murder at a higher rate than white men - it is not a gender issue.

Black women: 5.7/100,000
White men: 3.0/100,000

Stats are real - not emotional arguments which is all liberals have.

@#11 ... I know you won't actually read them so don't ask for more until you do. ...

That comment seems to be self-contradictory. But there it is.

Anyway, that aside ...

The www.amacad.org link - Sorry, we can't find the page you want.

The www.ascd.org link seems to agree more with the comment your current trolling alias disagrees with, than the disagreement your current trolling alias presents. Indeed, the article seems to present quite the contrary viewpoint that your current trolling proffers.

Of course, that leads me to ask, did your current trolling alias even read that article?

Well...the ol' "white man's burden"...

...My, how things have changed.

(and, FWIW, Ol' Robson's hilarious!)

Then there's this .... related?

Young men are leading a religious resurgence
www.axios.com

... Christianity is starting to make a comeback in the U.S. and other western countries, led by young people.

Why it matters: A decades-long decline has stalled, shaping the future of Gen Z, the drivers of the religion revival.

- - - "We've seen the plateau of non-religion in America," says Ryan Burge, a political scientist at Eastern Illinois University. "Gen Z is not that much less religious than their parents, and that's a big deal."

By the numbers: Data from Pew shows that, for decades, each age group has been less Christian than the one before it.

- - - Americans born in the 1970s are 63% Christian. 1980s babies are 53% Christian, and 1990s babies are 46% Christian.

- - - But there was no decline from the 1990s to the 2000s. Americans born in the 2000s are also 46% Christian.

Stunning stat: Gen Z-ers " especially Gen Z men " are actually more likely to attend weekly religious services than millennials and even some younger Gen X-ers, Burge's analysis shows.

Between the lines: Young men are leading American's religion resurgence. ...

@#15

My first question on the topic would be along the lines of ...

Has the politicization of religion, i.e., in the US the right-wing Christian effort, been the attraction?

"Young men are leading a religious resurgence"

Young men are adopting a world view that overstates their importance and rationalizes their butt-hurt selfishness.

They ain't being religious like Jimmy Carter!

@#16

... and as a follow-up question ...

If Pres Trump wants to revoke Harvard university's tax exempt status because he thinks it is political, then should we also revoke the tax-exempt status of the religious sects in which the Pasotrs preach political sermons?

"Has the politicization of religion, i.e., in the US the right-wing Christian effort, been the attraction?"

Attraction is not the right word to describe the mindset of someone who is being groomed.

Gangs and prey on people who don't have better options in society. Groomers offer emotional support and friendship to the outcast.

Men grew up thinking the world owed them a job and a career are victims all right. Victims of their own mythology. They groomed themselves on "Masculine culture" like Joe Rogan. They self-radicalized listening to Rush Limbaugh and Donald Trump.

As adults, they are malcontent but they have been conditioned to believe it's always somebody else's fault.

They are the Alpha Victims.

@#17 ... They ain't being religious like Jimmy Carter! ...

Speaking of fmr Pres Carter ...

When he became President, he put his business, the peanut farm, into a blind trust. He did not try to profit off of his occupancy of the Oval Office for the benefit of that blind trust.

Has Pres Trump put his businesses into a blind trust?

"The www.amacad.org link - Sorry, we can't find the page you want.

Here is the live link for this article: direct.mit.edu

The main point of this article is the shift in learning to inclusive/team methods of learning which are better aligned with female learning styles. This has been a major goal and trend in US education. If you want more detail in this actually occurring, you can refer to The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) show a growing emphasis on collaborative learning in U.S. K-12 schools.

"The www.ascd.org link seems to agree more with the comment your current trolling alias disagrees with, than the disagreement your current trolling alias presents. Indeed, the article seems to present quite the contrary viewpoint that your current trolling proffers.
#13 | Posted by LampLighter""

The entire point of the article is about how teachers need to make the classrooms more inclusive for females and to increase the harshness on grading for males. This not about enhancing male performance in K-12, it is about how to make classrooms more suitable for female learning styles and teacher feedback to encourage that - as well as making it more difficult for males to succeed by asking teachers to re-examine their grading for males.

I recently had a large debate with some of my Korean colleagues on the difference between the Korean education system and the American education system and how the US has switched to these team styles of learning and emphasizing testing to lower the gender gap. Korean takes the exact opposite approach with emphasis on rote memorization and standardized testing and no emphasis on groups which is why I looked into this subject in the first place.

I stand by my comments - the changing teaching style has truly benefited females in the US and their performance materially improved. However, a portion of that improvement came at the expense of males by no longer using teaching styles aligned to male learning styles.