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AnonTechie [soylentnews.org] writes:

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.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/economy/here-s-100- years-of-proof-that-girls-are-better-students-than -boys-20140501 [nationaljournal.com]

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