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Girls outscore boys on inaugural national test of technology, engineering skills
- Mithaldu 10y agoI've been looking through http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/ http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/ but was not able to identify what her actual source data for this article is. Anyone else have more luck?
- optimuspaul 10y agoFound more details here: http://www.nationsreportcard.gov/tel_2014/ http://www.nationsreportcard.gov/tel_2014/ seems legit, but is anyone really surprised? Girls tend to do better than boys in in US educational system.
- Mithaldu 10y agoWithout looking at absolute numbers the percentages could mean anything, so it is in my opinion not a foregone conclusion.
- Bartweiss 10y agoOne interesting note: this is for eighth graders. If I recall correctly, that's just prior to the turnaround point for math - girls do better than boys on everything through elementary and early middle school, and then the gap reverses for math (and remains for reading) in high school. I'd be interested to see stats for 4th and 12th grade to put up some comparisons, but I don't think that's an option without yet more testing.