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...Beware of Dubious Teaching Secrets The media crowned a study as the answer to the Boy Crisis - but the study's "proven" effects are negligible at best
...most emailed stories on the Web last week reported that junior-high boy students do better when taught by a man, and girl students do better when taught by a woman. Here was a magic-bullet explanation for The Boy Crisis from Stanford's Hoover Institute: the boys are lacking because 4 out of 5 teachers are women...
...much better at all, according to fine print of Dee's study. On a simple 100-point reading test or math test, this "teacher gender effect" might alter a boy's score by one or two percentage points. Hardly the difference between...
...Japanese imperial line is believed to be the oldest royal family in the world, stretching back 2,000 years or more, but today it may have been saved by a brand-new baby boy. At 8:27 this morning, Tokyo time, Japan's Princess Kiko - the wife of Prince Akishino, Emperor Akihito's second son - gave birth to her first boy. Because Crown Princess Masako has borne only a single daughter, and because Japanese law allows only males to ascend to the Chrysanthemum Throne, Kiko's 7.5 lb. baby will almost certainly be the future Emperor of Japan...
...justice minister Hiroshi Nakai on hearing the news. Though the Internet burned with speculation over the suspicious timing of Kiko's pregnancy, the news immediately put Koizumi's initiative on the back burner. Now, with the birth of a prince, the law is almost certainly dead, and Kiko's boy will cut ahead of Aiko in the line of succession . Still, the quick abandonment of the revision reminds Japanese women just how low the glass ceiling still remains in their country, and underscores how strong political conservatism has become in Japan...