Associated Press, 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. 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.”
Disclosure: For my last two years in high school, I attended an all-boys school taught by an all-male faculty. And then an all-male college taught by a mostly male faculty.
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Here’s some more on this subject:
“First the good news: One year with a male English teacher would eliminate nearly a third of the gender gap in reading performance among 13-year-olds.
Now the bad: Having a male teacher improves the performance of boys while harming girls’ reading skills. On the other hand, a year with a female teacher would close the gender gap in science achievement among 13-year-old girls by half and eliminate the smaller achievement gap in mathematics, says economist Thomas S. Dee of Swarthmore College, who examined data collected from more than 20,000 eighth-graders beginning in 1988.”
Source: http://eideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/boys-girls-learn-differently-in.html
Disclosure: I spent three of my four years as an undergrad at an all male institution. We went co-ed in my fourth year.
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