Explaining and addressing gender differences in the New Zealand compulsory school sector
Subtitle: a literature review
By: Adrienne Alton-Lee and Angelique Praat.
Contributors: Praat, Angelique.; New Zealand. Ministry of Education. Research Division.; New Zealand. Ministry of Education. Curriculum Division.
Publisher: Research Division, Ministry of Education
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Wellington, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Subjects: Boys -- Education -- New Zealand.; Sex differences in education -- New Zealand.; Academic achievement -- New Zealand.
Description: "Commissioned in 1999 by the Curriculum Division of the Ministry of Education to explain gender differences in compulsory education for the period 1989 to 1999. The impetus for undertaking such a review stemmed from increasing concern among policy makers and practitioners that the education of boys in Aotearoa New Zealand was at risk"--Pref.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-356).