On Thu, 11 May 2000, David wrote: > > www.theatlantic.com/cgi-bin/o/issues/2000/05/sommers.htm > > I forwarded this URL to my acquaintance Vicka Corey, who used to study > sex differences among high-school students in physics classes (this > became a paper called "Physics for Girls and Other People," which I > think is findable on the Web). She gave me permission to post her > reply, though she emphasized that she's "half a dozen years out of > touch with the field," so her references are a bit old. I'll say. Her references are 10-15 years out of-date. If this is the best the backlash can do, I think Dr. Sommers has little to worry about. Whatever the situation may once have been, Sommers makes a persuasive case that it is now boys, not girls, who need special help in the classroom. -Stephen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stephen Black, Ph.D. tel: (819) 822-9600 ext 2470 Department of Psychology fax: (819) 822-9661 Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lennoxville, QC J1M 1Z7 Canada Department web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy Check out TIPS listserv for teachers of psychology at: http://www.frostburg.edu/dept/psyc/southerly/tips/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
