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  2. Intellectual giftedness - Wikipedia

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    The timeline of research into the impact of giftedness on mental health shows swings from the view point that it increases risk in the late 19th century to Terman's research that the gifted experienced fewer adjustment issues than others. [74] In 1981, a gifted high school student died of suicide and "the phrase, 'social and emotional needs of ...

  3. Sex differences in education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    On average, girls perform significantly better in school and earn better grades. [1] But, girls and boys do have different strengths. On average, girls perform better in writing and boys are ahead of girls in mathematics. [2] Men and women workers in the United States have the same mean numbers of years of education which is 12.2 years. [3]

  4. Sex differences in education - Wikipedia

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    The expenditure difference including spending unequally on students' fee, textbooks, school supplies like school bags, uniforms and other education expenditure. [57] And this kind of discrimination is rising in Nepal. Also, parents in Nepal are more willing to spend more money in order to let boys to go to private school for the better education.

  5. Sex differences in intelligence - Wikipedia

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    The meta-analysis also found that although there were no overall differences, a small sex difference that favored males in complex problem solving was still present in high school. However, the authors note that boys continue to take more physics courses than girls, which train complex solving abilities and may provide stronger training than ...

  6. Achievement gaps in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This inconsistency in which gender shows more achievement could be due to the fact that class grades, especially in middle and high school, usually depend on a student's completion of homework assignments, and studies have shown that girls report spending more time on homework than boys. [20]

  7. Pygmalion effect - Wikipedia

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    These scores were not disclosed to teachers. Teachers were told that some of their students (about 20% of the school chosen at random) could be expected to be "intellectual bloomers" that year, doing better than expected in comparison to their classmates. The bloomers' names were made known to the teachers.

  8. Educational inequality - Wikipedia

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    This is the age they should obtain a high school education. Males get worse grades than females do regardless of year or country examined in most subjects. [33] In the U.S. women are more likely to have earned a bachelor's degree than men by the age of 29. [34] Female students graduate high school at a higher rate than male students.

  9. Dude, You're a Fag - Wikipedia

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    Further, masculinity is established by high school boys through their use of the epithet "fag". This book explores masculinity as enacted by male and female students, the consequences of a strict gender system, heteronormativity within the school system, racialized masculine ideals, and acts of resistance to the gendered social order.