Contemporary Perspectives on Girls' Educational Achievement: What About the Girls?

Contemporary Perspectives on Girls’ Educational Achievement: What About the Girls? offers fresh insights into girls’ perceptions and experiences of educational achievement in the contemporary context.

‘What about the boys?’ is a common exclamation in debates which centre around young people’s educational achievements. But what about the girls? Is their success as simple and straightforward as government produced figures would have us believe it to be? Bringing together the wealth of internat...