Re: "Study: Teacher's gender affects learning"


Mike wrote:
http://www.educationnext.org/
WASHINGTON - 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.

All the evidence is that both learn better from men, preferably in
segregated classes and when learning geometry and foreign languages
from a young age. Also, preferably in an old building.

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.

Trust me I'm an economist! I've fixed the third world, now its your
turn.

[...]
His study comes as the proportion of male teachers is at its lowest
level in 40 years. Roughly 80 percent of teachers in U.S. public
schools are women.

Which, along with the love of money, is the root of all evil.

[...]
The study found switching up teachers actually could narrow achievement
gaps between boys and girls, but one gender would gain at the expense
of the other.

How it is already, just with a uniform bias against boys.

[...]
For example, with a female teacher, boys were more likely to be seen as
disruptive. Girls were less likely to be considered inattentive or
disorderly.

In a class taught by a man, girls were more likely to say the subject
was not useful for their future. They were less likely to look forward
to the class or to ask questions.

In both cases bias by women against men.

[...]

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