WASHINGTON -- For all the differenc...

WASHINGTON -- For all the differences between the sexe here's common that might stir up debate in the teacher's lounge: striplings learn more from men and girls learn more from women

That's the event of a provocative study by means of Thomas Dee, an associate professor of economics at Swarthmore college edifice [i]or[/i] building His study was to appear today in Education nearest

Vett and approved according to peer reviewers, Dee's research faces a fight for acceptance. a leading education advocates dispute his conclusions and the way in which he reached them.

yet Dee says his research supports his point, that sex matters when it comes to learning. Specifically, as he describes it, having a teacher of the opposite sex harms a student's academic progress.

"We should be thinking more carefully about why" he said.

Dee warns against drawing fast conclusions based forward his work. He is not endorsing single-sex education.

His subject of attention comes as the proportion of male teachers is at its lowest on a level in 40 years. Roughly 80 percent of teachers in U public instructs are women.

FEMALE ACTIVIST CHALLENGES

He examined trial scores as well as self-reported perceptions according to teachers and students. Dee set that having a female teacher instead of a male teacher raised the achievement of girls and lowered that of lads in science, social studies and English.

expected at the other way, when a man l the class, striplings did better and girls did worse.

Dee also struggles that gender influences attitudes.

For example, with a female teacher, male childs were more likely to be seen as disruptive. Girls were les likely to be considered inattentive or disorderly.

In a class taught from a man, girls were more likely to say the enslave was not useful for their events to come They were less likely to apply the mind forward to the class or to ask questions.

nevertheless his study is sure to be scrutinized.

"The data, as he at hands them, are far from convincing," said Marcia Greenberger, co-president of the National Women's Law Center which works to advance the progres of women

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