Boys are not succeeding in schools as well as girls. While research supports this and proposes various solutions, current literature implies that this is not the trend for selective student populations. This study analyzes the academic achievement of boys in a highly selective secondary school, across a wide range of academic indicators over a thirty-four year time period and contextualizes these findings by looking at what boys say about their academic experiences using data gathered from interviews, focus groups, and one-on-one interviews with matched pairs of academically successful and unsuccessful boys at the bottom of the lowest quartile. This study reveals that these boys earn, on average, a lower grade point average than the girls a...
The cry continues with A Nation at Risk, No Child Left Behind, and now the Common Core State Standar...
This study examined the effects of economic inequality on the academic achievement of the African-Am...
In the United States, more students are being retained in the ninth grade than in any other year in ...
Boys are not succeeding in schools as well as girls. While research supports this and proposes vario...
Boys are falling behind academically in many schools in the United States. Over that past thirty ye...
Educators, researchers and policy makers have taken notice, in recent years, of a trend whereby girl...
This case study attempted to determine the factors which distinguish boys who are achieving highly f...
This research studied those factors that impact the failure of boys in American schools. Multiple a...
In American high schools, students are sorted into three tracks to cluster resources for students ...
African American males are not graduating high school at high rates; of if graduating, mostly on a M...
This phenomenological, qualitative study was conducted to examine the educational experiences of 14 ...
The issue of minority achievement, as measured by graduation rate is a critical one, especially for ...
Postsecondary enrolments of young males has been declining since the mid-1980s. The decline can be a...
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston UniversityThis study attempted to identify characteristics associated with low...
The purpose of this study was to delineate which demographic and school variables were important for...
The cry continues with A Nation at Risk, No Child Left Behind, and now the Common Core State Standar...
This study examined the effects of economic inequality on the academic achievement of the African-Am...
In the United States, more students are being retained in the ninth grade than in any other year in ...
Boys are not succeeding in schools as well as girls. While research supports this and proposes vario...
Boys are falling behind academically in many schools in the United States. Over that past thirty ye...
Educators, researchers and policy makers have taken notice, in recent years, of a trend whereby girl...
This case study attempted to determine the factors which distinguish boys who are achieving highly f...
This research studied those factors that impact the failure of boys in American schools. Multiple a...
In American high schools, students are sorted into three tracks to cluster resources for students ...
African American males are not graduating high school at high rates; of if graduating, mostly on a M...
This phenomenological, qualitative study was conducted to examine the educational experiences of 14 ...
The issue of minority achievement, as measured by graduation rate is a critical one, especially for ...
Postsecondary enrolments of young males has been declining since the mid-1980s. The decline can be a...
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston UniversityThis study attempted to identify characteristics associated with low...
The purpose of this study was to delineate which demographic and school variables were important for...
The cry continues with A Nation at Risk, No Child Left Behind, and now the Common Core State Standar...
This study examined the effects of economic inequality on the academic achievement of the African-Am...
In the United States, more students are being retained in the ninth grade than in any other year in ...