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I'm not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for, but this was my understanding and what I could come up with to improve the article. I am definitely open to additions, and changes, because I am having a difficult time with this assignment and understanding just how and what to do. -AP

Statistics:

Updating the statistics section to include a better representation throughout the world. With sources to back up information.

Forms of sex discrimination in education:

Providing a better, expanded understanding of hidden curriculum. Currently it only explains hidden curriculum as interactions between teachers and students. Hidden curriculum includes more of how the topics taught in schools are focused on white, powerful, men. The sentences about attention to boys, and shy girls, can also be added to. This addition would be a subsection that will highlight the impact of teacher interaction on students. These interactions may be reinforcing or challenging to binary differences, and that can change a student’s behaviors.

Consequences of sex discrimination in education:

Besides just talking about pay and expanding on performance gaps during and after education, this section can be used to discuss the ramifications of peer pressure and bullying in schools as result of breaking gender norms. By displaying that both genders are bullied for breaking norms, it can make this article more nonbiased and neutral, as discussed on the talk page. Advancing women's status: analyzing predominant change strategies. (2011). ASHE Higher Education Report, 93-117.
 * ·        Peer pressure to conform to group norms
 * Boys who overachieve being bullied à teachers pets, goody goody, etc.
 * Girls who take boy classes à dyke, tom boy, etc.
 * LGBTQ students and bullying
 * How expectations of students create barriers for LGBTQ students, and bulling

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Koch, M. (1994). Opening up technology to both genders. Education Digest, p18.

Owens, S. L., Smothers, B. C., & Love, F. E. (2003). Are girls victims of gender bias in our nation's schools? Journal of Instructional Psychology, 131.

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Sadker, D., & Zittleman, K. (2005). Gender bias lives, for both sexes. Education Digest, 27-30.

Watson, A. (2011). Not just a'boy problem': an exploration of the complexities surrounding literacy under-achievement. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 779-795.