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Research based on international data has found that boys fail to match girls’ achievements regardless of how they are taught, writes The Times Educational Supplement (Jan 19). This means that no matter how much time, money and effort is poured into schemes to improve boys’ attainment, girls will still outperform them.

Professor Stephen Gorard, of York University, examined research on reading skills and found that girls do better than boys in all of the countries that are members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

“The differences occur in very different education systems. Any plausible explanation for the apparent underachievement of boys must, therefore transcend all of these differences,” writes Professor Gorard in his chapter of the book Gender in Education 3 to 19.

He argues that the gap cannot simply be explained by laddishness, truancy, seating arrangements or new teaching methods.

Edited by Hilary Claire, of London Metropolitan University, the research finds gender stereotyping is common in education, within the curriculum and teaching practices.

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Aug 3rd 2006

Economist.com

Larry Summers may well have been right, but men are done for anyway

ONE of last year's better entertainments was the Larry Summers show.

The row over whether Mr Summers, the then president of Harvard