Recent Research That Has Reanalyzed Data on School Performance Has

question 29

Multiple Choice

Recent research that has reanalyzed data on school performance has concluded that

• A) the "boy problem" is much more severe than we had previously recognized.
• B) the "boy problem" was an artifact of how the data were originally analyzed.
• C) middle-class boys were actually performing better than they had in the past, but minority boys were doing worse.
• D) the difference between how boys were performing and how girls were performing has almost completely disappeared.

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