Boys and Girls Clubs

Participation in Boys & Girls Clubs, vulnerability, and problem behaviors

Engaging Families in Boys & Girls Clubs: An Evaluation of the Family PLUS Pilot Initiative

Research has shown that engaging families through youth development and after-school programs may benefit children. This paper extends knowledge in this arena, describing a set of strategies for implementing family-strengthening activities in youth development settings. The paper reports findings from a pilot evaluation of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s Family PLUS initiative. Quantitative...

“In the eye of the beholder ...”: Girls’, boys’ and teachers’ perceptions of boys’ aggression to girls

Because children and young teenagers usually associate in same-sex groups, psychological research concerned with adolescent aggression has often concentrated on within-sex relationships. However, during adolescence, boys and girls increasingly interact socially. This paper reports a study of boy-to-girl aggression as perceived by girls, boys and their teachers. Focus group discussions were cond...

Boys-and-girls Birthdays and Hadamard Products

Boltzmann models from statistical physics, combined with methods from analytic combinatorics, give rise to efficient and easy-to-write algorithms for the random generation of combinatorial objects. This paper proposes to extend Boltzmann generators to a new field of applications by uniformly sampling a Hadamard product. Under an abstract real-arithmetic computation model, our algorithm achieves...

Boys Will Be Girls, Girls Will Be Boys: Cross Gender Roles in Opera

An exhibit focusing on the high-voiced male castrato singers and on " pants roles, " in which women sing male roles.