Education Quality, Education Costs, and Females in Education

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	Crosslink of TIMSS, IAEP, NAEP, and SAT scores.
	If the 12th graders of all 41 countries whose 8th graders participated in TIMSS had also participated in TIMSS, only South Africa would have scored lower than the US.
	The impact of test scores on average incomes.
	Table of education factors.

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Estrogen and IQ

	Sperm count decreases from 113 million per ml in 1938 to 66 million per ml in 1990.
	Male patients at a fertility clinic on the edge of London were more likely to have fewer, less active sperm if they drank water from the Thames Water company than if they drank water from outside London.
	Estrogen causes memory loss in women.
	Exposure to excess estrogenic compounds can cause developmental and reproductive problems in both sexes, but especially males.
	Declines in sperm counts might be occurring because of a complex interference with hormones involving the hypothalamus in the brain and the pituitary gland.
	Contraceptive pill ethinyloestradiol causes male fish to behave physiologically like females.
	Endocrine disruptors are chemicals suspected of interfering with the normal functioning of sex hormones in humans.
	Extra estrogen causes a 32% higher risk of breast cancer.
	Compounds may persist within an individual or a population, or they may persist globally.
	Average body weight of Americans increases almost 30 pounds.

Modified Tuesday, August 26, 2008