Working-class white boys at bottom of educational heap, warns new expert report
Posted by Brumac | Posted in News | Posted on 08-06-2009
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White boys have fallen to the bottom of the educational heap, a report says.
They do worse in their GCSEs than all pupil groups apart from gipsy and traveller children and those in care, whose schooling has been disrupted.
The under-achievement of white boys is particularly acute among working-class backgrounds, the research found.
They are falling behind Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Indian, black Caribbean, black African and Chinese children, as well as girls from all ethnic backgrounds.
Experts warned that white boys had lost sight of the connection between doing well at school and their future success.
The research, produced for the Department for Children, Schools and Families, found that Chinese pupils achieved on average six grades more across their GCSEs than white boys.
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