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Peer reviewedKeenan, Donna; Smith, Michael – Reading Improvement, 1983
Reviews research supporting the concept that girls usually outperform boys on tasks requiring verbal skills and that boys outperform girls on tasks using visual and spatial skills. Offers an explanation for this situation based on left brain/right brain research. Concludes that the curriculum in American schools is clearly left-brain biased. (FL)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bias, Cerebral Dominance, Curriculum
