When researchers study teachers' behavior toward elementary-school children, they typically find that
a. classroom teachers offer more positive feedback to boys than to girls.
b. male teachers pay more attention to boys, but female teachers pay more attention to girls.
c. Black girls are relatively quiet in the classroom during the early grades, but they participate more actively when they reach fourth or fifth grade.
d. in low-income families, girls earn lower grades in school than boys do.
A
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