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Answers to the questions everyone wants to know – There have been movements in recent years to teach boys and girls in separate classrooms, since they tend to learn at different rates and often need extra work in different subjects. But a new study shows that boys do BETTER in school if there are girls in the classroom! And despite urban myths to the contrary, girls are just as good at math as boys. Another thing parents want to know: What are the benefits of all that homework?

Boys who attend preschool classes with a majority of girls receive an intellectual boost, while preschool boys who attend majority-boy classes fall increasingly behind. But the proportion of boys to girls has no effect on the girls’ development.
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We’ve learned that your immune system is racial, and we also know that sometimes one gene for a disease can be protective, while two genes are bad. Black students seem to be more at risk for attention-deficit disorder, which causes problems in school?could this be linked to their ancestors?

Science Daily reports that a tendency to exhibit for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) might be beneficial to a group of Kenyan nomads, who may have passed on their genes to black children who are now living in the US. An ADHD-associated version of the certain gene that controls dopamine (one of the “feel good” hormones) causes better health in nomadic tribesmen. This same gene may cause more settled Africans to become malnourished.
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We recently reported on a lot of strange traits in cockroaches. In its ability to learn, the cockroach is a moron in the morning and a genius in the evening (some of us are that way too, especially if we don’t get enough sleep). This is why scientists are studying these bugs.
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Now that summer is over and exhausted parents have sent their kids back to school, an ongoing question arises once again: should kids go to school all year? New research has found that students in “year-round” schools don’t learn more than their peers in traditional nine-month schools. And if kids go to school full-time, they won’t have enough chances to get DIRTY!
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