More problems in our classrooms with the boys and girls still i started seeing that ultimately in the 14 years of research i did for the crisis but therere were about 56 of the largest developed nations were having problems with the boys falling behind in all of the academic subjects but especially reading and writing, the two biggest for success. So i started saying i is there something bigger going on. I sold the developed nations had enough mastery survival to allow permission for families who had divorces and women to raise children without any father involvement. I started looking at those populations and foun have foundn there were divorces children didnt do much worse because that had almost no fatherth involvement or no father involvement at first. They were the boy crisis. The single mother groups the same thing was true. The single biggest cause was that it resides where fathers do not reside. Crisissay that its the number one of education. Boys are falling behind in all majo
The top ten leading democratic contenders hoping to take on donald trump in the 2020 us president ial election have been going head to head in a much anticipated televised debate. Healthcare featured heavily at the start, but all eyes were on how centrist and former Vice President joe biden, seen as the frontrunner, performed against popular hopefuls Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Lets head to houston, and laura trevelyan, who can give us some reaction to the debate. Well, joe biden went into this as the front runner. The former Vice President s Campaign Team said at the beginning of the night that he had a target on his back, and so indeed it proved. And just to illustrate that, here is howjulian castro, one of the ten contenders on the stage, tried to go off tojoe biden, not very subtly, and tried to imply that perhaps he was getting old and forgetting things. Lets listen to that exchange. Barack obamas vision was not to leave 10 million 0bamas vision was not to leave 10 Millio
Headquarters company on the Demilitarized Zone between north and south korea. In 2014 he was selected for advanced civil schooling at Georgetown University in washington, d. C. He graduated with a masters degree in history in 2016. And assumed the position as an instructor in the department of history at the United States military academy at usma. He taught courses in both military and United States history. And currently directs the Academy Chorus civil war america, which studies americas society, politics, economy and military from 1816 to 1877. Hes joined tonight by his wife shannon and together theyve got three kids, nate, liam and elizabeth, 12, 2 and 1 years old. Turn over things now to major lambert. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you for the introduction and thank you for being here to learn about civil war gun powder and logistics. As always, although i am a major in the United States army nothing i say tonight is the opinion or policy of the d. O. D. , all views are entirely m
There, shes hiding in the second row. David 16 books, this does not include the two that were written as fiction. It does. Ups, my bad. 16 previous, books including the tangle tree, that some of the dodo, the reluctant mr. Darwin, and spillover, a finalist for the National Book critics circle award, and earth at the end of the market prize. He has written for the new yorker, harpers magazine, the atlantic, national geographic, and outside. Among other magazines, and is a threetime winner of the National Magazine award. He shares a home and boozman, montana. With his wife, author of american zion. With two russian wolf hounds, across ive cat, and a rescue python. We wont hold that against. You give a warm, savannah welcome, to david quammen. Thank, you, nancy thank you all. Nancy does not like snakes. But that is okay. We talked about that, we talked through the, up next, spiders, everybody has their boundaries. Thank you so much, bob and, diane thank you nancy, thank you savannah book
It looks like this, we are americans can see democracy at work, where citizens are truly informed, the public get informed straight from the source with on cspan. Unfiltered, unbiased, word for word. From the Nations Capital to wherever you are. Because the opinion that matters the most is your own. This is what democracy looks like. Cspan, powered by cable. David quammen is with us today courtesy of hiding in the second row. David quammens 16 previous books and i noticed that this does not include the two you wrote as fiction. Is that correct . It doesnt include . Okay, my bad. 16 previous books include the tangled tree, the sighing of the dodo, the reluctant mr. Darwin, and spillover, a finalist for the National Book critics circle award, and a subpoena of the merck prize in he has written for the new yorker, harpers magazine, the atlantic, national geographic, and outside, among other magazines, and is a threetime winner of the National Magazine award. Quammen shares a home in a boo