Girls can’t do math. Boys can’t read. These negative stereotypes are not only reinforced by teachers and parents but by a child’s peers in the classroom as well, a new study finds.

“Girls tend to do almost everything more thoroughly than boys,” Topping told me over email, while conversely boys are “more careless about some, if not most, school subjects.” ...

Reading for Boys and Girls. By Everett T. Tomlinson. November 1900 Issue. Share. Saved Stories Save. A FEW generations ago, a distinctive literature for boys and girls was unknown.

March 17, 2010— -- Girls are reading better than boys, according to a new study by the Center on Education Policy, and the pattern is giving girls a life-long advantage, experts tell ABC News ...

Boys told reading tests were a game outscored girls on the exams, but scored much lower than girls when told the tests were reading-skill assessments.

I’m on book tour for the latest installment in the chapter book series “The Princess in Black.” A woman asks, “So when are you going to write a series like this for boys?” I say ...

By the 12th grade girls leave boys in the dust in reading, according to the National Assessment of Education. The typical boy is a year and a half behind girls in reading, and the 12th grade ...

Boys whose classmates think reading is for girls are more likely to perform poorly in this area, a study suggests. To conduct the study, researchers quizzed a total of 1,508 fifth-grade students ...

Boys appear to have caught up with girls on reading ability, research into what children are reading for pleasure suggests. A study of which books more than 210,000 UK children are reading ...

Girls can’t do math. Boys can’t read. These negative stereotypes are not only reinforced by teachers and parents but by a child’s peers in the classroom as well, a new study finds.

Girls can’t do math. Boys can’t read. These negative stereotypes are not only reinforced by teachers and parents but by a child’s peers in the classroom as well, a new study finds.