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Not just minorities the gap between boys and girls in education increases every year.

• zxcdw 12y ago
  Have you, or someone else, got a source for this or articles/studies done? Not questioning it, just curious.
  • pbhjpbhj 12y ago
    PISA is a long term comparative study of child education in about 60-70 countries including USA; http://www.oecd.org/pisa/aboutpisa/ http://www.oecd.org/pisa/aboutpisa/ The 2012 results for USA, http://www.oecd.org/pisa/keyfindings/pisa-2012-results.htm http://www.oecd.org/pisa/keyfindings/pisa-2012-results.htm, for Maths, Reading and Science show the gender gap to be better than the average with a trend towards constancy; ie contrary to the GP's claim. However, I wouldn't want to say on my cursory view of their summaries that the GP was wrong.
  • malnourish 12y ago
    This is about to be slightly off topic, but: You don't need to apologize for questioning. You should be encouraged to question. I've noticed this trend lately (some here, often on askscience/historians) where people preemptively apologize for asking for sources. Just because you question their sources does not mean you are personally attacking them.