The Boys at the Back A third reason: improving the performance of black, Latino and lower-income kids requires particular attention to boys. Black women are nearly twice as likely to earn a college degree as black men. At some historically black colleges, the gap is astounding: Fisk is now 64 female; Howard, 67 percent; Clark Atlanta, 75 percent. The economist […]
Female Hedge-Fund Veteran Has Contemplated a Comeback Women have an especially tough time raising money, according to a recent study by Rajesh Aggarwal and Nicole M. Boyson, professors at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University.
Have American Parents Got It All Backwards? Instead of keeping children satisfied, we need to fuel their feelings of frustration. The French, as well as many others, believe that routinely giving your child a chance to feel frustration gives him a chance to practice the art of waiting and developing self-control. Gilles, a French father of two young boys, told me that […]