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Direct linkSmith, Emma – Evaluation & Research in Education, 2010
This paper considers contemporary "moral panics" around the underachievement of boys in school examinations in the UK and America. In the UK, in particular, the underachievement of boys is central to current "crisis accounts" about falling standards and failing pupils. "Underachievement" is a familiar word to those…
Descriptors: Violence, Underachievement, Young Adults, Males
