If WA and other states ARE providing effective LA instruction to male
students why do males, on average, still score about a year and a half
below
females on tests of reading and writing ?
Why that boys are the great majority of those getting LA help in
classes for the Learning Disabled ?
This is despite decades of women (mostly) shuffling boys off to remedial
programs like Title I.
The example of LA is just another way American schools shortchange boys.
Boys may outscore girls on college admission tests in WA, but who GOES to
college, Who GRADUATES ?
If WA is like the rest of the nation, males are a declining minority of
college students and college graduates.
If the WA tests are like the SATS males are over-represented at both the
TOP
and the BOTTOM
Steven A. Kaatz
Associate Professor of Education
Bethel College
St. Paul, Minnesota
<kaaste@bethel.edu>
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