The Boys at the Back - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Teachers of classes as early as kindergarten factor good behavior into grades — and girls, as a rule, comport themselves far better than boys.
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No previous study, to my knowledge, has demonstrated that the well-known gender gap in school grades begins so early and is almost entirely attributable to differences in behavior
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If the teachers had not accounted for classroom behavior, the boys’ grades, like the girls’, would have matched their test scores.
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