"Although the study took place in Israel, Lavy said that similar research had been conducted in several European countries and that he expected the results were applicable in the United States."

Says Victor Lavy, economist at the University of Warwick in England.

So, according to Victor the Britain-based economist studying Israeli education culture, not only does gender bias in the Israeli education system somehow represent the experience of European students (all of them. All of Europe. Every county there, every culture, every background), but he also assumes it accurately represents the American educational system?

Does anyone expect this academic british economist to have something relevant to say about the current American Education System?

Why is he even a voice in the room? And he's 'solved the case?'

Also from the article, I love the story about teachers giving their male students higher scores and their female students, but only when they new their names. Did *MATH* all of a sudden become vague? In elementary school, math questions generally have a right answer, and anything but that answer is unarguably wrong. Where is the room for gender bias on elementary school math exams? Oh - maybe math is different in Israel? There's no 'estimation of ability' on a math test! There's just ability!

This study and this study are highly specious and I hope everyone here asks the obvious questions rather than letting this bit of garbage sit in their minds as unquestioned fact.

Other than a general "yes, children who are encouraged at something tend to like it more" this article seems irresponsibly fluffy.

Just my 2c.

If they liquidate the VEX Robotics stuff I'll be first in line. I love it!

I recall that many countries have a large number of write-in votes for these characters. I think I remember Australia having so many they were considering making it a civil offense to write in a fictional character. Could running under these names be an attempt to take advantage of these write-ins?

I just saw this other post this morning, about some industrious teenagers in Africa making a generator that runs on urine. Related tech? A URINE POWERED GENERATOR http://makerfaireafrica.com/20...