The Myth of the Boy Crisis

The Washington Post writes up some new research indicating that the much-fretted-over "boy crisis" in education doesn't actually exist -- "both sexes have stayed the same or improved on standardized tests in the past decade" and family socioeconomic factors are a much larger demographic determinant of outcomes than is gender. Of course if you read Sara Mead's June 2006 paper on this topic you already know all this.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/05/the-myth-of-the-boy-crisis/44972/