COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.]

American girls' performance at school has suffered a bigger blow from the Covid-19 pandemic than that of their male peers, according to a new analysis.

reported on Monday that Since 2019, girls' average test scores have dipped below those of boys in all 15 of the exam datasets examined by The Wall Street Journal, the newspaper reported Monday.

While both genders suffered some "learning loss," girls appeared to have been hit harder – sometimes by a marginal amount, and sometimes substantially.

More alarming is that recent research by the University of Arkansas (PDF link) suggests that this pattern holds true across 70 other countries, even adjusting for demographic differences between each population.……..



https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...lost-girls-test-scores-pandemic-b2674869.html