The remarkable academic superiority of high school girls vs. high school boys

10/19/2016
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(American Enterprise Institute) By Mark Perry — Above is a table summarizing new data just released by The College Board on the academic records of the 1.64 million US high school students who took the SAT in 2016 (see my recent CD post on gender differences on the SAT math test here). As you can clearly see, these data provide […]

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ACADEMIC ‘GENDER GAP’ SIMILAR IN U.S., INDIA

10/10/2016
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(Duke Today) By Laura Brinn —  Academically talented girls in the United States surpass boys in language performance and are narrowing the gap with their male counterparts in math achievement, according to new research from the Duke University Talent Identification Program (TIP). Among similarly talented youth in India, the gaps are wider, with boys holding […]

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