Girls outpace boys? Something must be wrong.

I won't spend a lot of time on this, but I did wonder why - when girls outpace boys in every subject (read: math and science, that's what we care about here) do we question our unit of analysis? It's bad enough when this is dubbed a "boy crisis" when never before did we consider the opposite a crisis of girls test performance.

But alas, according to the Trib:

Girls gained the most ground last year, immediately after the state revamped the Illinois Standards Achievement Test. The state made the tests more colorful, gave pupils extra time to finish, added questions with longer reading passages and replaced state-created test items with those pulled from a national bank of questions.

People are now questioning the validity of the new tests, and the test creator even defended that the girl-centered results weren't intentional.

I guess it's all part of the vast feminist conspiracy, finally inching ahead of the curve. Never mind that women outperform and out-graduate men in college, despite the persistent wage gap in men's favor across the country. But I digress.

p.s. Let's not even get into the funding linked testing process in the first place. When's that Presidential election again?