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Female tutors are best for boys
Reuters via The Times of India ^
| 25 Aug 2007, 0009 hrs IST
| Reuters
Posted on 08/25/2007 4:38:15 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick
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To: CarrotAndStick
Women work better with small children.. we need a study for this?
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posted on
08/25/2007 4:39:01 AM PDT
by
CGTRWK
To: CarrotAndStick
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posted on
08/25/2007 4:46:04 AM PDT
by
mtbopfuyn
(I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
To: CarrotAndStick
preferably attractive women!!!
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posted on
08/25/2007 4:46:05 AM PDT
by
aliquando
(A Scout is T, L, H, F, C, K, O, C, T, B, C, and R.)
To: aliquando
Preferably attractive women in bikinis and heels
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posted on
08/25/2007 4:47:08 AM PDT
by
Fred911
(YOU GET WHAT YOU ACCEPT)
To: CarrotAndStick
“paired them with a research assistant”
The article isn’t clear, but seems to me most research assistants are college students.
What boy wouldn’t pay attention to a young woman paying attention to them?
I still remember the student teachers I had in elementary school. mmmmmm!
To: CarrotAndStick
the boys paired with female tutors felt better about their reading skillsTHIS is proof? They FELT better? Are they graded on how they feel, or how well they read? BS
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posted on
08/25/2007 5:00:47 AM PDT
by
blu
(All grammar and punctuation rules are *OFF* for the "24" thread.)
To: CarrotAndStick
On average, the boys paired with female tutors felt better about their reading skills after the 10 weeks than those who were coached by a male research assistant. Felt better? Now isn't that scientific?
/sarcasm>
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posted on
08/25/2007 5:01:28 AM PDT
by
F-117A
(Mr. Bush, have someone read UN Resolution 1244 to you!!!)
To: CarrotAndStick
After about 16 years of watching my wife home-school 3 boys and 2 girls, I've concluded that boys learn early to please Mom ... which I believe translates into pleasing (impressing) girls later in life.
Girls are more prone to want to please Dad.
If only the 'study' that 'confirms' boys and girls are different was believed and accepted ... these 'study's' would no longer pop up every 20 years or so, and we could get on with weaving and mending the fabric of America.
All you guys drooling in your fantasies (still) missed something somewhere back there ...... or got something.
/8^)
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posted on
08/25/2007 5:06:03 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
To: CarrotAndStick
>>On average, the boys paired with female tutors felt better about their reading skills after the 10 weeks than those who were coached by a male research assistant.
Who cares how they *felt*!?
Did their reading skills improve, or not, that’s the salient question.
Just damn.
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posted on
08/25/2007 5:07:44 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
To: F-117A
“....female tutors felt better....”
Even I have to agree with this part of the article.
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posted on
08/25/2007 5:12:46 AM PDT
by
HighWheeler
(The higher the concentration of libs, the bigger the tragedy that follows.)
To: CarrotAndStick
Well, duh.
To: CarrotAndStick
Quote from the article:
“On average, the boys paired with female tutors felt better...”
FELT? So now feelings have taken the place of actual measured improvement in reading?
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posted on
08/25/2007 5:17:21 AM PDT
by
vladimir998
(Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
To: CarrotAndStick
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posted on
08/25/2007 5:19:12 AM PDT
by
Ramcat
(Thank You American Veterans)
To: CarrotAndStick
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posted on
08/25/2007 5:19:42 AM PDT
by
Vinnie
(You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
To: live+let_live
Mine were nuns. Not much of role model for girls, either.
To: live+let_live
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posted on
08/25/2007 5:24:09 AM PDT
by
Loud Mime
(Life was better when cigarette companies could advertise and lawyers could not..)
To: SatinDoll
My K-8 teachers were nuns as well. I learned self-defense.
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posted on
08/25/2007 5:25:26 AM PDT
by
Loud Mime
(Life was better when cigarette companies could advertise and lawyers could not..)
To: CGTRWK
"Women work better with small children.. we need a study for this? Note this sentence:
"....the boys paired with female tutors felt better about their reading skills after the 10 weeks than those who were coached by a male research assistant."
What an asinine piece of work. Not "...the boys paired with female tutors did better on standardized reading tests..", which would actually mean something, but they "felt better about their reading skills..."
So the female tutors spent a lot of time building up their "personal esteem" (women are known for that), while the male tutors were probably actually teaching them to read.
That's already a big part of the problem with todays schools--too much female "esteem building" and not enough "get your ass to work" male skills-building.
To: CarrotAndStick
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posted on
08/25/2007 5:47:00 AM PDT
by
this is my name not yours
(Free speech is the escape valve that keeps some people from picking up a rifle.)
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