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Keeping gender scores in Greene's schools
Feb 06, 2011 9:23 am
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[/caption]Dick May's Seeing Greene blog roared back with a February report on Friday, the 4th, that covered pretty much everything of import for the past month, from Coxsackie developments and Brian Dewan's 15 minutes of fame in The New Yorker to Sean Frey's resignations and a variety of cases swirling around the Greene Correctional Facility in Coxsackie. Of key interest to us was a snippet about the latest breakdown of boys and girls getting High Honors in 12th grade at Catskill High School, which May reports as showing "a gender division of eight boys and 11 girls" that represents "a gain on the masculine side, a climb toward equality of academic achievement." In 11th grade, he adds, the gender division at High Honors level was even with six boys and six girls. And at Cairo-Durham High School, girls out-numbered boys by a 3-2 margin: 18 to 12 among High Honors students in Grade 12, while at Hunter-Tannersville HS, four of the seven seniors who achieved “Superintendent’s Honor” rating were girls, while 18 seniors achieved grade averages of 90 or better, 11 of them girls. May later takes the statistics wider into Ulster County, finding similar patterns. Interesting...
[/caption]Dick May's Seeing Greene blog roared back with a February report on Friday, the 4th, that covered pretty much everything of import for the past month, from Coxsackie developments and Brian Dewan's 15 minutes of fame in The New Yorker to Sean Frey's resignations and a variety of cases swirling around the Greene Correctional Facility in Coxsackie. Of key interest to us was a snippet about the latest breakdown of boys and girls getting High Honors in 12th grade at Catskill High School, which May reports as showing "a gender division of eight boys and 11 girls" that represents "a gain on the masculine side, a climb toward equality of academic achievement." In 11th grade, he adds, the gender division at High Honors level was even with six boys and six girls. And at Cairo-Durham High School, girls out-numbered boys by a 3-2 margin: 18 to 12 among High Honors students in Grade 12, while at Hunter-Tannersville HS, four of the seven seniors who achieved “Superintendent’s Honor” rating were girls, while 18 seniors achieved grade averages of 90 or better, 11 of them girls. May later takes the statistics wider into Ulster County, finding similar patterns. Interesting...