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ERIC Number: EJ556416
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-1911
Girls' World or Anxious Times: What's Really Happening at School in the Gender War?
Barker, Bernard
Educational Review, v49 n3 p221-27 Nov 1997
Investigation of relatively poor male test scores in a British college identified ways to help boys achieve academic success. A contrast between accounts in the literature of female disadvantage and current worries about a male underclass led to the conclusion that perceptions of gender-related behavior may be shaped by social and political anxieties. (SK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries, Scores, Secondary Education, Sex Differences
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: England