Editing Education in the United States (section)

====Sex differences====
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[[File:Algebra_I_by_Sex_or_Race_(2015-16).png|thumb|Significant race or sex differences exist in the completion of [[Mathematics education in the United States#Secondary school|Algebra I]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 2018 |title=A Leak in the STEM Pipeline: Taking Algebra Early |url=https://www2.ed.gov/datastory/stem/algebra/index.html |access-date=May 13, 2023 |website= |publisher=U.S. Department of Education |language=en}}</ref>]]
According to research over the past 20 years, girls generally outperform boys in the classroom on measures of grades across all subjects and graduation rates. This is a turnaround from the early 20th century when boys usually outperformed girls. Boys have still been found to score higher on standardized tests than girls and go on to be better represented in the more prestigious, high-paying STEM fields.