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The most interesting thing about that article was that it spent little time on the findings that indicate boys are get lower grades for the same result. That's kind of important. Things like that are very discouraging for either sex.

The other thing is that it fails to talk about the findings that males "catch up" to females eventually, which points to the idea of differing developmental cycles. That makes grading through high school less meaningful and probably has a lot to do with boys getting discouraged that they're "behind in class" and dropping out or giving up.