CALmatters analyzed data obtained from the California Department of Education and found that not only are black boys trailing behind black girls, but there is a persistent gender gap in reading and writing scores that “stretches across ethnic groups.”
The state of California publishes separate figures on the performance of various ethnic and economic groups, but it does not make public a detailed breakdown of how girls and boys are performing within those groups because of the complexity, cost and time constraints involved in doing so.
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