A study paid for by the National Science Foundation has found that girls perform as well as boys on standardized math tests. 20 years ago, however, boys in high school performed better than girls in math--that, too, has changed, the study found. Why? Simply put, girls used to take fewer advanced math classes than boys took. Now that that gap has narrowed, boys and girls are performing equally.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/25/education/25math.html?ref=education
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