[hguant]

>This has been known for a while yet does not receive any real attention.

because school teachers are overwhelmingly female, and overwhelming biased against male students? And there's a political/cultural movement built around promoting female academic advancement, while no such movement exists for male students?

>Results show that, when comparing students who have identical subject-specific competence, teachers are more likely to give higher grades to girls. Furthermore, they demonstrate for the first time that this grading premium favouring girls is systemic, as teacher and classroom characteristics play a negligible role in reducing it.

https://mitili.mit.edu/sites/default/files/project-documents...

https://economics.uq.edu.au/article/2021/12/teacher-gender-b...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01425692.2022.21...

[lukas099]

I remember in my high (private, religious) school social justice class talking about this. The teacher's contention was that this was a form of patriarchy: that boys were held to higher standards because more was expected of them.

I wish I had asked the teacher what he'd have thought had the shoe been on the other foot and girls were receiving lower grades for the same competence.