Been doing research on men and women. I used to be on the board of directors of the National Organization for women and i was speaking around the world on these issues and teachers in japan would come up to me and say we have more problems with boys than girls. And i started seeing ultimately in 14 years of research i did for the boy crisis why our boys are struggling and what we can do about it, 56 of the largest developed nations were having problems where boys were pulling behind girls in all academic subjects but especially reading and writing, the two biggest predictors of success so i started saying is something bigger going on and what is the cause of this and why has it developed and i focused, developed nations had enough mastery of survival to allow permission for families to have divorces and for women to raise children without much father involvement or any father involvement so i started looking at those populations and found when there were divorces children did much wors
Booktv continues now on cspan2, television for serious readers. [inaudible conversations] good evening and welcome to politics and prose. Finance jack bennett. Welcome. Before we begin, just a few notes. First we ask you to silence your cell phones. You dont want to be the person whose phone rings in the middle of the talk but we do want you to be heard in recording. Lastly after the talk please help us including the space by folding up your chairs and link them against the nearest wall. The signing will begin just afterward with a line stretching towards the front of the store books are available for purchase. Todays guest is professor Ganesh Sitaraman who teaches law at vanderbilt law school. Professor sitaraman worked as an advisor to Elizabeth Warren for the 21st century run and served as a genetic counselor in the senate. Additionally, he is a senior fellow at the center for american progress. Professor sitaraman is a to talk less news book, the public option how to expand freedom
From the west. Overnight lows of 1613d. We from the west. Overnight lows of 16 13d. We start the working week with low pressure dominating which will bring more showers throughout the day. Throughout the rest of the week, it will bring more showers, mainly in the north and west, where some of them will continue to be heavy with the chance of flooding. Hello, this is bbc news with lu kwesa burak. The headlines two Mass Shootings in the united states. The first in a Walmart Store in el paso, texas, where 20 people were killed. A suspect has been taken into custody by police. Hes been identified by local media as 21 year old patrick crusius. The second shooting took place in dayton, ohio, where nine people died. Officials said the speed of the polices response could have saved hundreds of lives. If Dayton Police had not gotten to the shooter in under a minute. Think of that, 26 injured, nine dead, hundreds of people in the oregon district could be dead today. Heathrow airport holds last m
This is the scene in hong kong as chinas Central Government issues increasingly stern warnings about unrest. Talks aimed at averting strikes by thousands of Heathrow Airport workers have resumed. The airport has already cancelled 177 flights scheduled for monday and tuesday after staff who are members of one Union Rejected a pay offer. And now on bbc news, a look back at some of the highlights this week from the Victoria Derbyshire programme. Hello, and welcome. Im riz lateef. Over the next half an hour well show you some of the highlights from our programme over the last week. And we start with a health warning, that the uk is in the midst of a hidden Public Health crisis when it comes to sleep. Those are the words of the woman who runs one of the countrys leading nhs child sleep services. Professor Heather Elphick at the sheffield Childrens Hospital sleep clinic, along with the local council, operate a pioneering scheme that helps 800 children a year to get more sleep. But the profes
The past so that we can make better informed decisions now. And i love as a military guy, i love looking back at conflict and what led us into those conflicts and how we came out of those conflicts a stronger nation. Grant is certainly one of those books. As i read and learned the role that my great state of ohio played in the civil war and holding our union together, i mean, grant i mean, lincoln had three prominent ohioans that encircled him; salman chase who was his secretary of treasury had been the 23rd governor of ohio, of course, grant became his fighting general, sherman from just a little bit outside of columbus, ohio, became one of grants righthand guys, and sheridan, also from just outside of columbus. General sheridan, another righthand general that played such a prominent role in bringing a decisive conclusion to civil war and avoiding any more bloodshed than we had. So ive enjoyed reading that book. I just finished reading thirteen day by robert f. Kennedy looking at the