[Lmresearch] New Educationsector report--THE EVIDENCE SUGGESTS OTHERWISE: The Truth about Boys and Girls

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           THE EVIDENCE SUGGESTS OTHERWISE:  The Truth about Boys and Girls

            by Sara Mead

            Based on an analysis of data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), this report challenges popular reports about boys falling behind.  Rather, the author finds, American boys are scoring higher and achieving more than they ever have before. But girls have just improved their performance on some measures even faster. As a result, girls have narrowed or even closed some academic gaps that previously favored boys, while other long-standing gaps that favored girls have widened, leading to the belief that boys are falling behind.

            However, the report also finds that there are groups of boys for whom "crisis" is not too strong a term. When racial and economic gaps combine with gender achievement gaps in reading, the result is disturbingly low achievement for poor, black, and Hispanic boys.  Overall, though, poor, black, and Hispanic boys would benefit far more from closing racial and economic achievement gaps than they would from closing gender gaps. While the gender gap picture is mixed, the racial gap picture is, unfortunately, clear across a wide range of academic subjects.

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