We are less willing to let boys be boys in classrooms

Great read via Get Schooled:

Today’s classroom is better suited for the ways girls learn, says Rao. “When you promote all this assessment and increasing standardization, you narrow the way you are going to teach kids, eclipsing the ways that boys learn better. You go to much less hands-on and manipulation of objects and to more sit down and lectures.”

Is standardized testing unfair for most boys? I guess that’s the main reason boys are often misunderstood as late bloomers.

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