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USA: 'Sounding the Alarm for Boys in Our Schools' Erika Sanzi

Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2019 7:15 pm
by Debbie_Hepplewhite
Blogger Erika Sanzi via her GOOD School Hunting site provides some shocking statistics about the education of boys and the consequences of not teaching them to read well enough. Where is the equity?
Sounding the Alarm for Boys in Our Schools

Erika Sanzi
https://goodschoolhunting.org/2019/06/s ... hools.html
Girls currently outperform boys academically in virtually every way, starting in elementary school with reading scores that are consistently higher by double digits and the trend persists all the way through high school and college.
Meanwhile, if we don’t take urgent action, those who proudly proclaim that “the future is female” may just get their wish as they passively sit by and watch the futures of our most marginalized boys destroyed before they’ve even made it out of elementary school.