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Neat news report on an experiment with gender specific classrooms---media type="youtube" key="AzO72OjBzMk" width="425" height="350" align="left"Based on low test results and with the idea that girls learn differently than boys the genders were divided and the teacher instruction and student activities were different. How many of us believe that girls and boys learn differently? Might be interesting to add somewhere...Is our curriculum bias because we cater to one gender over the other in our classrooms?


 * Rick Mercer's Rant on Gay Bullying and Teen Suicide**

What do you think about Rick's call to action as a result of Jamie's suicide? How might schools do more to end the bullying of gay teens?

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