Girls think they are cleverer than boys from age four, study finds

Teachers’ expectations may reinforce gender gap in school performance

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/sep/01/girls-boys-schools-gender-gap

Girls’ performance at school may be boosted by what they perceive to be their teachers’ belief that they will achieve higher results and be more conscientious than boys, the academics claim. Boys may underachieve because they pick up on teachers’ assumptions that they will obtain lower results than girls and have less drive.

The Guardian article further states,

The gender gap has been the focus of public and academic concern for at least 20 years.

At the same time, the article provides an obvious explanation why the gender gap persists and intensified:

Jenny Parkes, senior lecturer in education, gender and international development at the Institute of Education, University of London, said there had been marked changes in girls’ achievement in the UK in the latter half of the 20th century, in part thanks to feminism’s influence on the way girls view themselves.

Well, the only thing that has been done about that concern was to create a false concern that girls are under-privileged and shortchanged in the education system and need special attention. That has helped to intensify the growing gender gap in educational achievement.

It is propaganda in action. The feminists are a controlling influence in the education system. They learned how to make use of effective propaganda tactics and applied them, while our politicians and the bureaucracy eagerly complied and provided the necessary support and funding.

They results are not pretty.