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Here's 100 Years of Proof That Girls Are Better Students Than Boys. In all subjects, even math and science.
In 2006, Newsweek magazine declared it, loud, on their cover: America's boys were in crisis. Boys were falling behind their female counterparts in school. They were getting worse grades, lagging on standardized tests, and not attending college in the same numbers as girls. "By almost every benchmark," Peg Tyre, the author of the cover story, wrote, "boys across the nation and in every demographic group are falling behind." And so it began-the end of men, but also an ongoing conversation on how to better boys' performance in the classroom. From the article:
This "boy crisis," however, was based on an assumption: that males had previously been on top. Granted, there was evidence to support that idea. For one, educational institutions for most of modern history have been openly sexist, favoring boys. And traditionally, males had outperformed girls in standardized tests and in math and science. But "by the mid-1990s, girls had reduced the gap in math, and more girls than boys were taking high-school-level biology and chemistry," Tyre wrote.
The assumption that boys had been the better students didn't seem right to (married) researchers Daniel and Susan Voyer of the University of New Brunswick in Canada. "I've been collecting grade data for a long time," Daniel Voyer says in a phone interview. "Typically if you find gender differences, they are in favor of girls - it doesn't matter what it is. So it started to kind of puzzle me." And so the pair set out to test, collecting every study they could find on grades and gender since 1914 and crunching the numbers in a mega-meta analysis, the first of its kind.
While the girls' advantage is largest in reading and language studies, it exists for all subjects, even math and science. And though they tested data from across the world, the Voyers found the gender gap was largest in the United States.
What's most striking is that the gender gap held across the decades. If the boy crisis existed, they would have seen boys' performance peak and fall over time. That wasn't the case. "Boys have been lagging for a long time and ... this is a fairly stable phenomenon," the paper concluded.
(Score: 3, Funny) by velex on Friday May 02 2014, @01:04PM
Federal scientists conclusively prove that boys are poor students. If a boy shows any kind of skill, it's only because of his male privilege. Boys are not individuals. Would you like to know more?
Controversy! In a related study, critics of Sky Marshal Anoki's initiative to recruit boys into Fleet have shown that boys do not give good H.E.D. Sky Marshal Anoki resigns. Would you like to know more?
The recess bell rang. After a thoroughly boring exercise in basic grammar, it was finally time for afternoon recess. Vel was hopeful to spend some time hanging out with her friends.
"It's time for recess, children, but all boys must stay here," announced the teacher. Vel watched her friends and the rest of the girls leave the room for the playground. The room was quickly cleared of girls, the only [cis] female remaining being the teacher. The teacher continued, "You boys have been very disruptive today. You are all to put your heads on your desk and think about how privileged you are and how little you deserve it."
Vel didn't quite understand what the teacher was getting at. It was true that after lunch a few of the boys in the back had heckled the teacher during math period, but she didn't understand what that had to do with her. She put her hand up, hoping to get the teacher's attention.
"Yes, Vel, what is it?"
"Mrs. Sommerset, I don't understand," protested Vel. "I haven't done anything wrong. It was those boys back there who caused the problem. May I go out for recess."
The teacher considered the eight year old's words briefly, then concluded, "Vel, I know you're just as well behaved as a girl, but it wouldn't be fair to the other boys if I let you go out for recess."
So, Vel, put her head on her desk with the rest of the boys and contemplated her male privilege. One thought dominated the others in her head. "God, please turn me into a girl. Please, god, please."
Upon hearing that, God concluded that She would get around to it as soon as She started existing.
End of line.
(Score: 0, Troll) by ButchDeLoria on Saturday May 03 2014, @01:01AM
Cool story sis, top kek, nice quads, needed more NPH, just like the movie.