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In research that is guaranteed to delight men – and infuriate the women in their lives a controversial new study has claimed that men really are more intelligent than women.
Education
 Both education and income can determine whether a person will remain healthy, but those who stay in school longer have the best odds, largely because education so strongly influences income, say the authors of a new study. [continue reading…]
A good reception year teacher makes the biggest and longest-lasting difference to primary school education.
An assessment of over 70,000 children from Durham University’s Curriculum, Evaluation and Management (CEM) Centre reveals that a good reception year teacher has the biggest impact on primary school education.
The research, presented today at the British Educational Research Association Conference (BERA), suggests that while relative progress in each year of school is important, the earlier years are the most crucial. A modest boost in reception year is still detectable in the final year of his/her primary schooling at the age of 11, equivalent to a improvement of about a fifth of a level in a child’s SAT test results. This can be added to by boosts in later years. [continue reading…]
Eating disorders among adolescent girls and boys can have substantial negative impact on their health and lead to dangerous weight-control behaviors, such as self-induced vomiting or abusing laxatives or diet pills to control weight. The middle school age is a high risk time, especially for girls starting to engage in these dangerous weight-control behaviors that affect millions of Americans. Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) set out to determine if an obesity prevention program called 5-2-1-Go! could reduce the risk of eating disorder symptoms and harmful weight-control behaviors in adolescents. The study showed that almost 4% of middle-school girls receiving only their regular health education began vomiting or abusing laxatives or diet pills, but just 1% of the girls in the 5-2-1-Go! program did so. The results showed no effect of the program on middle-school boys. The study appears in the September 2007 issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. [continue reading…]
