Failing Working Class Girls

That all boys under-perform at school and all girls do well is both mistaken and misleading. Statistics recording the admirable rise in the achievements of middle-class girls and the deviant behavior and low exam attainments of working-class boys have wholly obscured the educational experience of a large group of underachieving pupils: working-class girls. This book gives them their long-overdue exposure.

Gillian Plummer provides a perceptive and constructive analysis of the autobiographica...