Boys Want Better Relationships With Their Teachers. What Can We Do About it?

An examination of why boys don't always feel close to their teachers. PLUS new research suggests that heavy cannabis use is linked to early death, and five more fascinating news stories.

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In this edition:

• Boys Want a Strong Relationship With Their Teachers. That Doesn’t Always Happen.

• Marijuana Dependence Linked To Higher Risk of Death

• Trump Joins A Global War On ‘Gender Ideology’

• In Idaho, A Preview Of RFK Jr.’s Vaccine-Skeptical America

• Bullets and Barriers: How One City Is Trying to Reduce Gun Violence

• Trump Officials Exerting Unprecedented Control Over CDC Scientific Journal

• Arizona Teacher On Leave After Explaining How Intersex People Don’t Fit Into Trump’s Executive Order

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Boys Want a Strong Relationship With Their Teachers. That Doesn’t Always Happen. (Education Week)

For 17-year-old Warren Coates, a teacher who’s taken the time to build a relationship with him is highly motivating.

“When there’s a teacher that I have a relationship with, I—100 percent—try harder in class. Even if I got no sleep the night before, I’ll stay up for first period because I like the teacher,” said Warren, a senior at Smyrna High School in central Delaware.

More than a dozen other boys interviewed by Education Week also strongly agreed that their performance in class depended on their relationship with the teacher. So, too, did over 1,000 male middle and high school students from six countries, including the United States, and various backgrounds (from well-resourced to impoverished) who participated in a study on the subject. READ MORE

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