“Are boys better at school than girls?” Michela Musto, a postdoctoral fellow at the Clayman Institute, asked middle school students, after observing their classrooms. Musto recently presented their answers to an audience of Clayman Institute faculty fellows. Her talk, titled “Brilliant or Bad: School Regulation of Boys’ Rule-Breaking and the Gendered Social Construction of Exceptionalism in Early Adolescence,” has since been published as the lead article in the June 2019 American Sociological Review.
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