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Gender and Education

Posted by Lori McCormick on June 3rd, 2008 in Academics, Articles of Interest

A new study on gender equity in education concludes that a “boys crisis” in U.S. schools is a myth and that both sexes have stayed the same or improved on standardized tests in the past decade.

A report written by the nonprofit American Association of University Women (AAUW), which promotes education and equity for women, reviewed nearly 40 years of data on achievement from fourth grade to college and for the first time analyzed gender differences within economic and ethnic categories. The report has concluded that academic success is more closely associated with family income than with gender.

Click to view this interesting article about gender equity in education .

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