By Richard V. Reeves, Simran Kalkat
This week in Class Notes
- My next adventure! The American Institute for Boys and Men.
- Safety net recipients pay more for housing, but it’s better quality.
- Normalization or salutary warning? How teen pregnancy in a peer influences behavior.
- Parental incarceration strains relationships with children.
- Boys are falling further behind girls in college enrollment, as this week’s top chart shows.
- Immigration has been a success story in the United States, even if its political success is murkier, writes Idrees Kahloon in The New Yorker.
- Check out our new report on early childhood education.
- For your calendar: events on the LGBTQ+ data gap, postsecondary education in prison, and a new early care and education workforce center.
Founding a new organization to focus on boys and men
This is the last edition of “Class Notes” from my desk. As of next month, I will be executive director of a new organization I am founding: the American Institute for Boys and Men. Our mission is to research and raise awareness of the problems of boys and men, and advocate for effective solutions. The need for a non-partisan, research-based organization focused on this issue has become clear…
