{"id":2166,"date":"2009-02-12T16:17:16","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T20:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=2166"},"modified":"2017-03-02T10:28:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T15:28:23","slug":"georgia-nigro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/02\/12\/georgia-nigro\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates psychology professor studies achievement of boys and young men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/02\/11-72georgianigro9388crop.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/02\/11-72georgianigro9388crop-400x265.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Bates College Professor of Psychology  Georgia Nigro seated in her in her Pettengill Hall office, is the college&#039;s representative to the Maine Boys Network, the consortium of policy analysts, educators and youth-services professionals that sponsored a year-long study on the academic underachievement on 540 Maine boys and young men.\n\nChildren have been at the center of Nigro&#039;s research and her concern about boys dates to 1997, when she interpreted a survey of Lewiston sixth graders&#039; attitudes toward school and their future. She was struck by the gender difference, with a quarter of male students feeling excluded in the classroom.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Professor of Psychology Georgia Nigro participates in the Maine Boys Network, a consortium of policy analysts, educators and youth-services professionals that sponsored a year-long study on the academic underachievement of 540 Maine boys and young men. <a href=\"http:\/\/mainebusiness.mainetoday.com\/newsdirect\/release.html?id=6274\">[More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of Psychology Georgia Nigro participates in the Maine Boys Network, a consortium of policy analysts, educators and youth-services professionals that sponsored a year-long study on the academic underachievement of 540 Maine boys and young men<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[130,14,32,220],"tags":[7227],"class_list":["post-2166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaboration","category-faculty-staff","category-maine-and-new-england","category-service","tag-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89030,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions\/89030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}