Girls’ gains in the classroom have not come at boys’ expense, says a new report from The American Association of University Women. The Washington Post and the New York Times both have pieces on the group’s study out today, which finds that academic success is more closely associated with family income than with gender (Shocker, that).
The best quote comes from the redoubtable Sara Mead of the New America Foundation in the Times:
“There’s still a lot of debate about whether there’s something we should be doing differently in teaching boys and girls. The people on the feminist-leaning side of the debate see the conversation about a boys’ crisis as a strategy to advance the single-sex education agenda. I’m not sure that’s correct. I don’t think the kind of data we have about boys’ and girls’ achievement tells us anything useful about single-sex education.”
Thanks for clearing that up, Sara.
Update: More from Eduwonkette, the Queen of Charts
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