The End of Men

I've read articles similar to this one over the years. The part of the article that mentions the boys eyes as "glazed over" is the reason I do what I do for a living. One of the main culprits to the decrease in the number of males seeking post-secondary education is the format of our educational system. The educational system is more suited to the learning style of females (passive, listener). Teachers, predominately, continue to stand and lecture in classes from elementary school through high school. Males are most suited for active engagement in the learning process. For a variety of reasons, people learn best by doing, but considering the way children are raised, females adapt better to being auditory learners when necessary than boys. One of the possible solutions to meeting the multiple learning styles and intelligences of learners is through technology-based interventions which is where I come in. I won't digress.

Society has become more driven by information and the skill of communicating that information. Research has long shown that females are more verbal than males. The reason for this could be debated with the classic "nature vs. nuture" theory/ born that way or developed that way. For those of you who are married, this may carry over to your household. Honestly, everything doesn't have to be a debate with spouse and shouldn't be, but it can be if you allow it sometimes. Sometimes it's best to just agree to disagree and keep moving.

So, one of the issues to consider initially is relationships. Relationships in the classroom, workplace, and home with females. They all start early in the life of males.

Just my initial thoughts. Feel free to join in or not.  :)

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TIME TO VOTE!

Here are the books, in alphabetical order, nominated for our January 21 meeting. Please vote for no more than three (3) books:

Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

Milan Ford, 83 Things I Wish the Black Church Would Stop Doing

Toure, Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?: What It Means to be Black Now

NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN

Nominations are hereby open for our January 21, 2012 selection. Nominated books should be "TOPICAL" OR "ISSUES NONFICTION this time. You are free to nominate two (2) books. Nominations will stay open until Wednesday night. On Thursday and Friday we will vote on the nominated books.

This Saturday, of course, we will meet at 5pm in the usual space to discuss Is Marriage for White People, by Richard Ralph Banks. Looking forward to it!

Women Choose Flexibility Over Big Titles (NBC Nightly News Story)

Interesting story considering the current book we are reading. Applies to black women?
Click here.

Good Meeting

Enjoyed our meeting, as usual, last Saturday afternoon. As revealed at the meeting, the book we'll be discussing on November 19, 2011 at our 5 p.m. meeting will be Ralph Richard Banks, Is Marriage for White People?: How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone. It should really be interesting...

Blog Posting/Commenting Issues

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TIME TO VOTE!

Here are the books, in alphabetical order, nominated for our November meeting. Please vote for no more than three (3) books:

Ralph Richard Banks, Is Marriage for White People?: How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone

Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

Michael Dawson, Black Visions: The Roots of Contemporary African-American Political Ideologies

Gerald Early, A Level Playing Field: African American Athletes and the Republic of Sports

Milan Ford, 83 Things I Wish the Black Church Would Stop Doing

Robin D. G. Kelley, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original

Randall Kennedy, The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency

Ronald R. Sundstrom, The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice