http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/11/business/gender-gap-in-education-cuts-both-ways.html?ref=economy&_r=0
Last week the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development — a collective think tank of the world’s industrialized nations — published a report about gender inequality in education, based on the latest edition of its PISA standardized tests taken by 15-year-olds around the world.
The gender gap in math persists, it found. Top-performing boys score higher in math than the best-performing girls in all but two of the 63 countries.Test scores in science follow a similar.
But these are hardly the most troubling imbalances. The most perilous statistic in the O.E.C.D.’s report is about the dismal performance of less educated boys, who are falling far behind girls.
3 comments:
I find this article to be very concerning, especially in regard to the dismal performance of the less-educated boys who are falling far behind girls. While it is not excellent news that top-perfoming boys scored higher in math than the best-performing girls in almost every country, it is more concerning that the boys who are less educated are falling farther behind girls. We need to catch the less-educated boys up to the girls if we ever hope to close the gender gap in education.
I agree with Emily, it should not only be a focus on who is performing the best, but also focusing on the lowest scores and trying to bring them higher. Since boys have the largest range of test scores, the focus should be on both equalizing gender AND lessening this range to a higher median.
I think it's more of a stereotypical thing that top performing boys are better than best performing girls. Having said that, I agree with Emily and Abby, the biggest concern is the less-educated boys who are falling far behind girls.
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