Description: Analyses the strategies teachers can use to improve the educational achievements of both boys and girls. Also challenges gender construction in the classroom and thereby addresses the 'gender-gap' in achievement.
Review Quotes:
'... deserves to be widely bought and used in classrooms and teacher training.' - The Times Educational Supplement
'Becky Francis provides us with a very clear and level-headed account of these debates and her own reflections on them. She has written a most thoughtful and carefully researched book ... This is an excellent book.' - Miriam E. David, Educational Review