The Latest NAEP Reading Scores (Opinion)

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board president of the National Education Writers Association, and a frequent opinion commentator on national education issues.

Bottom line: No gender gap changes worth noting. Which means a continuation of the status quo -- more girls than boys succeeding in this verbal-intensive world, where even math problems are

expressed as word problems.

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