Friday, December 14th, 2007
Prospect: The Bias Against Boys
Parents have long suspected it, school reports have hinted at it and teachers have often accepted it. Now the statistics show it: school is a girl’s world. Research published by the Bow Group think tank this summer revealed that boys fall dramatically behind in the key disciplines from the beginning of their school career—and then carry on falling. As young men, a significant minority fall out of school into crime, young offender institutes and sometimes prison…
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…
Thursday, May 24th, 2007
The Daily Telegraph: Falling educational standards in Bristol
Education standards in some of the poorest parts of the country have dropped in the past 10 years, according to a new report…
Sunday, May 6th, 2007
The Observer: Britain’s 100,000 ‘invisible’ teenage dropouts
Anushka Asthana and Jo Revill on a shocking new study that finds thousands of youngsters give education a miss – and are then lost and cut loose without help…
