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Originally Posted by odd_fish_9  Another perfectly good theory for this trendy "girls excel at (fill in the blank)" is that we've spent the last thirty years turning all our schools into girls' schools, the profess surprise when we find that the boys are at best uninterested in, and at worst alienated by, their classes. |
I keep hearing this about public schools increasingly favoring girls over boys. I even started a thread about it last year:
Gender gap in education?
Is there any real evidence to suggest that gains in girls' academic performance in the US is coming at the expense of boys'?
Just interested.