Educational Underachievement Among Boys and Men
This report takes stock of educational underachievement among boys and men, examines the evidence on contributing factors, and explores what has been done to address the phenomenon. While female underrepresentation in secondary and tertiary educati...
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okr-10986-374842022-05-28T05:10:30Z Educational Underachievement Among Boys and Men Welmond, Michel J. Gregory, Laura EDUCATION OF BOYS EDUCATIONAL UNDERACHIEVEMENT CONTRIBUTING FACTORS TO EDUCATIONAL UNDERACHIEVEMENT OF BOYS SECONDARY EDUCATION RATE TERTIARY EDUCATION EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT LEARNING POVERTY RATE MIDDLE-INCOME LEARNING ASSESSMENT This report takes stock of educational underachievement among boys and men, examines the evidence on contributing factors, and explores what has been done to address the phenomenon. While female underrepresentation in secondary and tertiary education remain a significant issue in some, particularly low-income, countries, more than 100 countries have lower levels of male secondary and tertiary education enrollment and completion. Learning poverty rates—the proportion of children unable to read and understand a simple text at 10 years of age—are higher for boys than for girls in all regions and almost all countries of the world. Across various grades and subjects, in many countries boys tend to have poorer learning outcomes than girls, with substantial differences in some countries, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, as regularly demonstrated in international assessments of student learning. For high-income countries, this is not a new development—it has been readily acknowledged and discussed in the literature since the 1990s. What has become increasingly common is the observance of this gap in middle-income countries as well. 2022-05-27T22:48:48Z 2022-05-27T22:48:48Z 2021 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/111041644611110155/Educational-Underachievement-Among-Boys-and-Men http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37484 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Report Publications & Research |
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EDUCATION OF BOYS EDUCATIONAL UNDERACHIEVEMENT CONTRIBUTING FACTORS TO EDUCATIONAL UNDERACHIEVEMENT OF BOYS SECONDARY EDUCATION RATE TERTIARY EDUCATION EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT LEARNING POVERTY RATE MIDDLE-INCOME LEARNING ASSESSMENT |
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EDUCATION OF BOYS EDUCATIONAL UNDERACHIEVEMENT CONTRIBUTING FACTORS TO EDUCATIONAL UNDERACHIEVEMENT OF BOYS SECONDARY EDUCATION RATE TERTIARY EDUCATION EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT LEARNING POVERTY RATE MIDDLE-INCOME LEARNING ASSESSMENT Welmond, Michel J. Gregory, Laura Educational Underachievement Among Boys and Men |
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This report takes stock of
educational underachievement among boys and men, examines
the evidence on contributing factors, and explores what has
been done to address the phenomenon. While female
underrepresentation in secondary and tertiary education
remain a significant issue in some, particularly low-income,
countries, more than 100 countries have lower levels of male
secondary and tertiary education enrollment and completion.
Learning poverty rates—the proportion of children unable to
read and understand a simple text at 10 years of age—are
higher for boys than for girls in all regions and almost all
countries of the world. Across various grades and subjects,
in many countries boys tend to have poorer learning outcomes
than girls, with substantial differences in some countries,
particularly in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
region, as regularly demonstrated in international
assessments of student learning. For high-income countries,
this is not a new development—it has been readily
acknowledged and discussed in the literature since the
1990s. What has become increasingly common is the observance
of this gap in middle-income countries as well. |
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Welmond, Michel J. Gregory, Laura |
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Welmond, Michel J. Gregory, Laura |
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Welmond, Michel J. |
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Educational Underachievement Among Boys and Men |
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Educational Underachievement Among Boys and Men |
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Educational Underachievement Among Boys and Men |
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Educational Underachievement Among Boys and Men |
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Educational Underachievement Among Boys and Men |
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educational underachievement among boys and men |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2022 |
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