Girls Against Boys

Flight of the Jonas Brothers?

HBO's "Flight of the Conchords" is one of the wackiest, funniest, most undersung comedies on TV today -- deserving of a best-comedy Emmy nomination, though at least it won nods for directing, writing, and the songs "The Most Beautiful Girl (In the Room)" and "Inner City Pressure." (They're up against Sarah Silverman's, um, ode to Matt Damon.) Now, from the World Dominating Disney Channel, comes the news that the Jonas Brothers are going the Conchords route. Their upcoming series, originally sla...

Math performance in the US: boys and girls have same mean, different variance

Sorry for the light blogging everyone. It has been a busy, busy week. Some of you may have caught Janet Hyde's latest paper looking at data from the No Child Left Behind Act and math performance in the US. Under the No Child Left Behind Act, states are required to test children for a variety of skills on a yearly basis. The paper looked at math performance across grade-level broken down by gender for 10 states from these tests. Here is the key graph: The data includes a measure of effect size ca...

Youth Pastor Watch

California: A former Camarillo youth minister, Markus "Mark" Holland McDowell, will be sentenced on Oct. 14 after he pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of molesting a minor victim and two counts of digital penetration, said prosecutor Gilbert Romero.... According to the Sheriff's Department, McDowell met the girls through a youth ministry program at Camarillo Church of Christ, where he had served as a youth minister.... McDowell also taught religion courses at Westmont College and Pepperdine Un...

Sword of the Stranger

This article is about homosexuality. and its not a gay bashing. so if you are a kind of person who wants to kill all homosexuals in the world, dont read this please. Can you draw a strict line between being straight and homosexual? Well, for most of us all, and most of the time, it's very easy. if you cant get turned on by seeing nude of full-grown-muscle-packed-boxed-face-male-adult (my brain imaged this while typing against my will and it was bad) , then you are not a gay and you are ok. and ...

Struggling in first grade, often depressed by the seventh

Black first-graders - especially girls - who are already performing poorly in school are at risk of being depressed by the time they reach junior high, according to an analysis of hundreds of African-American students in Baltimore. Therefore, researchers say, focusing early on what such youngsters are doing well may help build self-esteem and guard against a downward spiral. This is the first time psychologists have examined the link between academic performance and depressive cognitions for Afr...

Atheist-agnostic lawsuit against N.D. kids' ranch dismissed

Federal judge says Freedom From Religion Foundation lacked standing to sue over referrals by state agencies to church-affiliated Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch.

Suit Against Church-Tied Ranch for At-Risk Youth Dismissed

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by atheists and agnostics that challenged the state's sending of children and money to the church-affiliated Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch.

Poisonous Parenting: On Natural Families

Trigger Warning: This post contains descriptions of child abuse, which my be a trigger for some abuse survivors. I've never spent much time in or near family court. Even when Parker's adoption was finalized, D.C. family court was having an "adoption day," where almost nothing was on the docket but adoption finalizations. Our attorney told us that the judges really loved "adoption day, " because it was such a welcome change from what they saw on a daily basis. But that day, we were so happy that ...

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Exergaming goes Online with US vs UK Gamercize Tournament

Playing video games is not normally seen as a sport, but this week school children from Northern California represented USA as they took part in the World's First International Exergaming Tournament, against boys and girls from Derby, England.