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Sequeira is also encouraged to see girls improving, "but we should make sure that the boys don't fall behind," he said. "We have to make sure everyone is making the same strides forward."

News of the test scores came as no surprise to Shana Lamar, 16, a senior at Kennedy High School.

"We focus more," she said. "Boys spend more time on basketball and video games while we do our work."

Lamar said it wasn't a question of intelligence, but discipline and effort.

"Boys are smart," she said, "when they want to be."

Ban young male drivers, says judge

Liz Keen and Lisa Jones

South Wales Echo

YOUNG men should be kept from behind the wheel until they are 24, according to a top judge.

Faced with a teenager who admitted doing 95mph when he "clipped" another car, causing a catastrophic accident, Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC told him: "Everybody knows young men and motor cars just do not go together.

"One wonders how many dead or badly injured people there have to be before insurance companies or Parliament say enough is enough."

And after banning 18-year-old chef Ricky Boon from driving for five years, he added: "At 24 you may just be suitable to sit behind the wheel of a car - and it seems to me that's about the first time young men should drive."

Boon was showing off to friends in his newly-acquired Peugeot when a Toyota sports car driven by a 24-year old came alongside him on a 70mph dual carriageway between Pyle and Laleston, Bridgend.