Boys, Girls and Grades: Conclusion

Our findings suggest that the province's schools have great potential for improvement in the extent to which they enable learners of both genders to perform at their potential. There is scant evidence that this challenge has even been recognized, let alone accepted, by those operating the great majority of our province's schools. We encourage parents, teachers, counsellors, and school administrators to join in the design and implementation of plans to improve this essential aspect of school performance.

To provide a benchmark against which annual progress can be measured, we will include the gender balance performance indicator in future editions of The Fraser Institute's report card on secondary schools in British Columbia. We will look for a greater degree of continuity of result within schools, less variation between schools, and a general trend toward academic gender balance throughout the system.

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