Return-Path: <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h6GIwS728474; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 14:58:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 14:58:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20030716185711.11145.qmail@web14303.mail.yahoo.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: tom zurinskas <tzurinskas@yahoo.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-4EFF:2423] Girls are better than boys in writing (also reading) X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Status: O Content-Length: 2364 Lines: 67 Girls Far Outscore Boy in Writing NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS Friday, July 11, 2003 Girls far outscored boys on the writing portion of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, according to new data released Thursday. It's the largest gender gap of any major subject area tested by NAEP, the federal tests often called "the nation's report card." The NAEP writing test is given every four years to fourth-, eighth- and 12th-graders. It is considered perhaps the most respected of the nation's major academic tests and allows comparisons between states. At all three grade levels tested, girls finished on top by wide margins. Forty percent of eighth-grade girls scored high enough on NAEP to be considered "proficient" under the test's rules. Only 20 percent of boys did. To put it another way: If all of America's eighth-grade girls moved to their own state, it would have the fourth-highest writing scores in the country. If all the boys moved to their own state, it would rank 37th of the 41 states that NAEP tested. Writing advocates argued that writing still often gets short shrift in schools that focus more on reading and math skills -- often because of the way state testing systems are structured. For example: The federal No Child Left Behind law passed last year requires that states test students in reading and math, but has no such requirement for writing. Texas' new statewide test assesses students in reading every year from grades three to nine, but in writing only twice, in grades four and seven. There are also two English language-arts exams that combine reading and writing into one test. Source: Joshua Benton, "Report finds huge gender gap in writing skills test," Dallas Morning News, July 11, 2003. For text http://www.dallasnews.com/latestnews/stories/071103dnmetreportcard.5f716.html For National Report Card http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/files/specials/interactives/wdc/reading_writing_scores/index.html?SITE=TXDAM&TEMPLATE=EDUCATION.html For more on Testing and SATs http://www.ncpa.org/iss/edu/ ===== Read all about truespel at truespel.com. Convert text to truespel USA accent by copy/pasting it at: http://www.foreignword.com/dictionary/truespel/transpel.htm __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
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