Posted by
Ron on Monday, August 28, 2006 12:49:31 AM
The most important aspect of this study is that it shows gender
matters. Women and men are different and this also impacts how we
learn. Notice I said different, not better or worse, just different.
More study needs to be done.
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For
all the differences between the sexes, here's one that might stir up
debate in the teacher's lounge: Boys learn more from men and girls
learn more from women.
That's
the upshot of a provocative study by Thomas Dee, an associate professor
of economics at Swarthmore College and visiting scholar at Stanford
University. His study was to appear Monday in Education Next, a quarterly journal published by the Hoover Institution.
Vetted
and approved by peer reviewers, Dee's research faces a fight for
acceptance. Some leading education advocates dispute his conclusions
and the way in which he reached them.
But
Dee says his research supports his point, that gender matters when it
comes to learning. Specifically, as he describes it, having a teacher
of the opposite sex hurts a student's academic progress.
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