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Autore: | Whitmire Richard |
Titolo: | Why boys fail : saving our sons from an educational system that's leaving them behind / / Richard Whitmire |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : AMACOM, c2010 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
Disciplina: | 370.15/4 |
Soggetto topico: | Motivation in education |
Academic achievement | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Discovering the Problem; 2 The Reason for the Boy Troubles: Faltering Literacy Skills; 3 The Likely Causes of the Reading Lapses; 4 The Writing Failures; 5 The Blame Game: What Gets Blamed (Unfairly) for the Gender Gaps; 6 Solutions: What Works for Boys?; 7 Impediments to a Solution: The Ideological Stalemate; 8 The International Story: Australians Struggle with the Boy Troubles; 9 Why These Gender Gaps Matter; 10 Actions That Need to Be Taken; Appendix: The Facts About Boys; Notes; Index; About the Author |
Sommario/riassunto: | Boys are slipping in school at an alarming rate. Here's why it's happening-and how to stop it. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Why boys fail |
ISBN: | 9786612492686 |
0-8144-1535-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910818454603321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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