Saturday, August 11th, 2007
The Daily Telegraph: How to bring the lost boys back into the fold
If I told you there was one group of children who were three times more likely to be permanently excluded from school than any other group; one out of five of whom would have a reading age of half their years by the time they were 14; a quarter of whom would not gain a single good GCSE, who would you think I was talking about? A minority ethnic group? Those in isolated pockets of poverty? Those with English as a second language? No. The shocking truth is that immense educational underachievement is taking place under our nose, among half our school population – boys…
