Chapters 13, 15, 16, 17, 18 Affirmative Action: A set of policies that grant preferential treatment to a number of particular subgroups within the population- typically, women and historically disadvantaged racial minorities Boy–Girl Achievement Gap: “girls catch up while boys from lower-class backgrounds lose ground.” It is not so much that girls are surpassing boys in educational achievement but they have started doing equally well at the same time that boys from lower class backgrounds have…
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