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Episode: Bombshell Study Shows Teachers Give Boys Lower Grades (But Only When They Know It’s A Boy) w/ Raw Egg Nationalist + John Solomon (Just The News) & Libby Emmons (The Post Millennial)
Description: A major education study found teachers give boys lower grades – but only when they know the student is a boy. Researchers from Switzerland compared anonymous national exams with teacher-graded tests and found the bias only appeared when the teacher knew the student was male. When school tests were graded blindly, boys performed as well as or better than girls.
The findings suggest that a teacher’s sexism against males, not student ability, is a larger factor in lower reported scores for boys and contributes to long term academic gaps that follow young males for the rest of thei...