<![CDATA[Jezebel: Edumacation]]> http://cache.jezebel.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: Edumacation]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/edumacation http://jezebel.com/tag/edumacation <![CDATA[The Graduate Is A Tripp]]> Finally the world gets some endearing Palin news. Bristol received her high school diploma last night, wearing a necklace of Blow-Pop lollipops strung together with curly gift ribbon and mouthing, "Where's my baby?" Congrats! [People] More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5255835&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Boys In The Classroom Make Girls Stoopid]]> When you think back to the pigtail-pulling and stink bombs, did most of the madness in your grammar-school years come from boys? Sure, there's a special kind of torture that goes on between roving packs of girls. But when it comes to book learnin', a new study says that while boys benefit from being in a classroom with girls, girls do not benefit from being in a classroom with boys. Tim Harford writes in Slate:
Boys pollute the educational system, it seems, for a number of unmysterious reasons: They wear down teachers, disrupt classes, and ruin the atmosphere for everyone. And more boys are worse than fewer boys, not because they egg each other on but simply because more of them can cause more trouble in total.
But it's not just that boys make for a bad learning environment. Girls make school better! According to the study, "Results suggest that an increase in the proportion of girls leads to a significant improvement in students' cognitive outcomes." More »
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