<p>Turns out girls have been outperforming boys in grades for over a century. Article posits the real issue is that boys with involved educated fathers become involved educated men. Schools need to focus on academic achievement and not on sports culture to produce male academic achievers.</p>
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Yet they also found that the academic discrepancy isn’t new. Surprisingly enough, girls have been outperforming boys in school for a century — so much so, Buchmann tells me, that when the first U.S. colleges and universities began admitting young women, and quickly saw that they were winning the lion’s share of academic honors, some actually reversed their co-educational policies. What has changed, they say, isn’t the relative status of boys (a devaluing of maleness in the classroom), or a feminization of education (that much cursed need to shut up and sit still), or a dearth of men in the teaching profession (boys, it turns out, do equally well with female and male teachers). Instead, they say, there has come to be a real discrepancy in boys’ and girls’ attitudes and effort — backed up by the messages that boys and girls are getting about academic achievement at home.
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