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These are just a few interesting statistics on the different achievement levels and comparisons between boys and girls.

Grade Level:	Five year olds
Website: www.literacytrust.org & http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/2000/essay/e03e.asp	70% of girls already grasp of the alphabet, numbers before they even start school, where as 38% boys do not. In primary school, girls out score boys in baseline testing. More girls than boys can associate letters with sounds (32% vs. 26%). 3% of boys and 2% of girls can read words by site. In early elementary girls and boys score equally in mathematics. Boys excel in this area at the latter of elementary school.
	Boys (14%) and girls (7%) have a hard time speaking words clearly and communicating. Boys (18%) and girls (9%) face difficulties focusing for long periods of time.
	In reading girls scored 89% and boys 81%. In writing girls scored 87% and boys 76%.
	Eleven year olds
	In English girls scored 83% and boys 72%. In reading girls scored 87% and boys79%. In writing girls scored 71% and boys 56%.
	78% of girls and 71% of boys are more eager to learn. 74% of girls and 58% of boys pay attention. 78% of girls and 65% of boys complete their work.

Not only do males average 35 points higher on the Math portion (and 4 points higher on the Verbal), but the disparity grows as the test challenge becomes more rigorous. Males account for 60% of those who score over 600 on the SAT Math, and the ratio of males to females in the top 0.1% of mathematical ability ranges between 7 to 1 and 14 to 1

The source of this duality is that males have greater "variance" on all manner of cognitive tests. That is, they are dispersed more widely all over the map of psychological testing, high and low, while girls occupy the more moderate middle-ground. According to an analysis of sex differences in mental test scores in Science (7 July 1995), males have a greater variance than females of between 3% and 15%, and the variability is especially striking in certain areas such as mathematics or spatial reasoning. Technically, boys have a greater standard deviation.

Although boys score higher on standardized tests, girls receive better grades in all disciplines.

The average 11th grade boy writes at the same level as the average 8th grade girl!

Only 17% of bachelor's degrees in engineering and 35% in math and science went to women.

On the NAEP (National Assessment on Education Progress) males outperform females, with more males than females scoring at the proficient or advanced levels.

The percentage of girls who say they like science from 4th to 8th to 12th grade, goes from 66% to 47% to 48% (Educational Equity of Girls and Women, National Center)

The percentage of girls who believe that anyone can do well in math if they try declines from 90% to 71% to 46%, from grades 4, to 8, to 12 (Educational Equity of Girls and Women, National Center for Education Statistics, 2000).

Women make up only 19% of the science, engineering and technology workforce (Report of the Congressional Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering and Technology Development, 2000).

Of the 10 fastest growing occupations, 8 are science, math or technology related (Before It's Too Late: A Report to the Nation from the National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st Century, 2000).

Information References: Two great sites for more interesting statistics.

http://www.stats.org/record.jsp?type=news&ID=7

http://www.imaginarylinesinc.com/ilines/didyouknow.shtml