She’s found that little ones who are destined to do well in a typical 21st century kindergarten class are those who manifest good self-regulation. The f

She’s found that little ones who are destined to do well in a typical 21st century kindergarten class are those who manifest good self-regulation. The first question is what determines "doing well"? This was not clear to me from the article. Is it grades? High-School completion? Entrance exam levels? Completing University? Getting a PhD? Making their first billion $? For a very long time (40+ years) we know that girls have done better in grades and boys have done better in standardised admission tests. The quality of "good self-regulation" others may describe negatively as a false reward for "girls keep quiet". In open format classes boys dominate and demand attention. Teachers may be rewarding girls "self-regulation" because they are more considerate of the teacher and fellow students. But as a result teachers give more attention to the students that are worse at "self-regulation". see: "Failing At Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls" from 1995 Kenney-Benson and some fellow academics provide evidence that the stress many girls experience in test situations can artificially lower their performance, giving a false reading of their true abilities. The Kenney-Benson study I believe is this one from 2006: http://news.illinois.edu/news/06/0220mathdivide.html http://news.illinois.edu/news/06/0220mathdivide.html This field of study appears to me to be a mess. Here is a study on the male grade crisis with a counter conclusion. Pretty much the similar research results but different conclusion and language: The researchers examined 369 samples from 308 studies, reflecting grades of 538,710 boys and 595,332 girls. ... The study reveals that recent claims of a “boy crisis,” with boys lagging behind girls in school achievement, are not accurate because girls’ grades have been consistently higher than boys’ across several decades with no significant changes in recent years, the authors wrote. http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/04/girls-grades.aspx