A report in the Sunday Telegraph on 7th May showed how Hurworth School in Darlington had improved boys education by setting tough targets and adding a competitive aspect to learning.
As quoted in the report :-
Assertive mentoring, where pupils are made to focus in monthly meetings on the marks they should be getting and the practical means of achieving them, is banishing the anti-learning culture that has developed in some schools, particularly among boys.
The approach, pioneered at Hurworth School in Darlington, which has seen its five A* to C GCSE score soar from 38 per cent in 1998 to 92 per cent in 2006 is being adopted by other secondaries. The gender gap in the school's results of 12 per cent has been eradicated.
It's quite clear that this school is cutting edge in dealing with the issue (link) of raising the results of boys who are seven years behind girls when it comes to GCSE results.
As posted on this site before (link), the feminisation of the education system over the past 20 years generations has let down two generations of boys. Only now, is the education establishment thinking about this problem but much more is needed including structural changes such as more sport, more personalised reading books (history, action, sci-fi) and re-introducing O-Levels for those that wish to take them.
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