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By Stacey Tallitsch | August 4, 2026 It is back-to-school season, which means the annual wave of headlines about boys falling behind — behind in reading, behind in grades, behind in college applications. The diagnosis is always some version of the same thing: something is wrong with the boys. They
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The headlines say men are opting out of college. The data says something colder: a pipeline that has been filtering boys out since the third grade. Here's what's actually happening - and what to do about it.
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By Stacey Tallitsch | May 17, 2026 Every few weeks the headlines warn about it again. Young men aren't enrolling at the rate they used to. The gap between male and female undergraduates has widened to record levels. The framing in nearly every story is the same: men are
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By Stacey Tallitsch | May 15, 2026 Every six months the headlines run the same hand-wringing piece. Boys are falling behind in school. Men make up only 42% of college students. Young men are "in trouble" — disengaged, unmotivated, anxious, vanishing. The diagnosis is always the same. Something is