In the H.M.O. and in a mid-Atlantic Medicaid group, the number of girls receiving prescriptions for stimulants increased more in the five years than the number of boys, researchers found, suggesting that girls are increasingly being diagnosed with attention disorders.
Disaffected boys Researchers have different areas of emphasis in addressing boys' educational underachievement, but all agree that school-based remedies are not enough and, like that of girls' underachievement in the developing world, it is inseparable from wider questions of gender and power.
- Malcolm on posh-boy Tory researcher Phil.
The real boost in results came when girls significantly outnumber boys; the researchers did not find a case for mixed schools per se, and certainly not when the girls are in the minority.
And while ADHD has long been perceived as a boys' condition, researchers noted a surprising jump in diagnoses among girls, which increased by 55percentt during the study period.
"Girls may be socialized early into a socioemotional orientation emphasizing emotional expressivity, making them more socially mature than boys," the researchers conclude.
It was strong but flexible, and would expand as the boy grew — the researchers likened it to "the hose of a vacuum cleaner".
There are mountain peaks and construction equipment, lions and zebras, surveying equipment and weaponry, Genghis Khan, Japanese warriors, a seated Buddha, a Boy Scout, scientific researchers and, again and again, Roosevelt.
Local boy Ward Jansen Matthew McConaugheyy), a newspaper researcher, has come back to his hometown to work on a story revealing that Van Wetter has been wrongly convicted; the plan is that he digs up the facts, and his highly strung colleague Yardley Acheman David Oyelowoo) turns them into classy reportage.
On one tape from that year, Ball started her day by calling on a boy known to the researchers as Sean.
