Wednesday, January 28, 2015

UK: Black and Asians Exceed White College Rate, Whites Asians Most at Top Universities

UK: Black and Asians Exceed White College Rate, Whites Asians Most at Top Universities

Black and Asian school-leavers more likely to go to university than their white peers
64% of Asian students and 62% of black students went on to higher education in 2012-13, compared to just 45% of white students.

h/t educationviews http://www.educationviews.org/black-asian-school-leavers-university-white-peers/
Asian students are the most likely to study at a top-flight university, with 12% going on to a Russell Group university – including Oxford and Cambridge – compared with 11% of white students and 6% of black students.

A similar picture can be seen post-GCSE, with 93% of Asian and black students continuing their education, compared to 87% of white students.


Ofsted, the schools watchdog, has previously highlighted the problem of underachievement of white working class children, which has also been the subject of an inquiry by the cross-party education committee.

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Girls lead boys in academic achievement globally


from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150126125015.htm

Girls lead boys in academic achievement globally

January 26th, 2015 in Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Girls lead boys in academic achievement globallyGeary determined that girls outperform boys in educational achievement in 70 percent of the countries they studied, regardless of the level of gender, political, economic or social equality.

Considerable attention has been paid to how boys' educational achievements in science and math compare to girls' accomplishments in those areas, often leading to the assumption that boys outperform girls in these areas. Now, using international data, researchers at the University of Missouri and the University of Glasgow in Glasgow, Scotland, have determined that girls outperform boys in educational achievement in 70 percent of the countries they studied—regardless of the level of gender, political, economic or social equality.
"We studied the educational  levels of 1.5 million 15-year-olds from around the world using data collected between 2000 and 2010," said David Geary, Curators Professor of Psychological Sciences in the College of Arts and Science at MU. "Even in countries where women's liberties are severely restricted, we found that girls are outperforming  in reading, mathematics, and science literacy by age 15, regardless of political, economic, social or gender equality issues and policies found in those countries."
According to the data, boys fall behind girls in overall achievement across reading, mathematics, and science in 70 percent of the countries studied. Boys outperform girls in only three countries or regions: Colombia, Costa Rica and the Indian state, Himachal Pradesh. Boys and girls had similar educational achievements in the United States and United Kingdom.
In countries known for relatively low gender equality ratings, such as Qatar, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, the  gap is relatively large and favors girls.

Thursday, January 22, 2015

Study: stereotypes hold back women, Blacks but not Asians

Study: stereotypes hold back women, Blacks but not Asians [edit]

A  paper led by authors Sarah-Jane Leslie of Princeton Leslie and Cimpian found that only the field-specific ability beliefs hypothesis, unlike the three competitors, is able to predict gender differences across all of academia, as well as differences for other similarly underrepresented groups, such as African Americans. "We found academic fields that emphasized the need for raw brilliance were more likely to endorse the claim that women are less well suited than men to be top scholars in the field, "says Cimpian," and further that such fields are less welcoming to women.", but this pattern did not appear among Asian Americans

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