New study finds grading bias against boys and ethnic minorities. These groups are severely underperforming without adequate program intervention, indicating a general lack of care for boys and minorities.

I'm a professor and when I bring problems such as this up to other professors, I get a lot of pushback (always without empirical basis, of course). They usually tell me that boys are just lazy and are raised to be entitled, without putting together the fact that their clear bias against them (demonstrated by the very reaction to assume that they are lazy and entitled) contributes to disparities in academic performance. Virtually no work is being done to solve this problem because educators refuse to self-reflect and immediately shift the blame. Empirical evidence usually does not sway them because, as is the case with any form of prejudice, the bigoted mind is impervious to evidence.

https://academic.oup.com/esr/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/esr/jcag005/8554292?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false