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Friday, March 28, 2014

Pennsylvania study: Rural girls get better grades, are more likely to attend college than boys

Girls from rural areas are more likely to get better grades than boys and are more likely to attend college, according to results from a study by The Center for Rural Pennsylvania, the organization reports in its March/April newsletter. The 10-year study followed a group of students from 11 rural school districts, who at the time the study began were either in seventh-grade or high school juniors.

The study found that 75 percent of girls in the seventh-grade group received As and Bs, compared to 65 percent of boys. More girls, 68 percent, went on to a four-year college, compared to only 57 percent of boys, while 27 percent of boys had a high-school degree or less, compared to 19 percent of girls.

The disparities were larger among the high-school-juniors group, in which 74 percent of female juniors earned As and Bs, compared to only 61 percent of boys, and 75 percent of girls attended a four-year college, compared to only 57 percent of boys. Nineteen percent of boys had a high-school degree or less, compared to only 6 percent of girls. (Read more)

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