It seems that I’m not the only one to question the study being bandied about by the American Association of University Women
Carrie L. Lukas at the Independent Women’s Forum
The AAUW has put out another study arguing that there is no “boy crisis” in education. Their main argument seems to be that because both boys and girls are improving on many educational metrics, we shouldn’t have heightened concern about boys just because their rate of improvement has been slower than girls. It’s certainly true that girls improvement isn’t bad news for boys (education isn’t a zero sum situation, except if you are focused on college admissions) but it is interesting to imagine how the AAUW would be reacting if it was girls rate of improvement that was lagging behind boys. Somehow I imagine they would be a little more concern about it and they’d be happy to call it a “crisis.”
Not just a crisis, but probably an “education emergency†as well, with the appropriate accompaniment of wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Remember, when someone or a group of some ones say that “The Debate is Overâ€, the debate should have just only begun.