Boys and Literacy
Subtitle: Exploring the Issues (Language and Literacy Inaction)
Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer
Published: January 25, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780415237611
First sentence: In 1996 Chris Woodhead, then Chief Inspector of Ofsted (Office for Standards in Education), was reported in The Times Educational Supplement (TES) as stating: 'the failure of boys and in particular white working-class boys is one of the most disturbing problems we face within the whole education system' (Pyke 1996).
Description: "Trisha Maynard reports the findings of a case study of a primary school whose staff wanted to explore and improve boys' attitudes towards and attainment in literacy, and in particular their difficulties with writing."--Jacket.