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Educational Underachievement Among Boys and Men

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dc.contributor.authorWelmond, Michel J.
dc.contributor.authorGregory, Laura
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-27T22:48:48Z
dc.date.available2022-05-27T22:48:48Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThis report takes stock of educational underachievement among boys and men, examines the evidence on contributing factors, and explores what has been done to address the phenomenon. While female underrepresentation in secondary and tertiary education remain a significant issue in some, particularly low-income, countries, more than 100 countries have lower levels of male secondary and tertiary education enrollment and completion. Learning poverty rates—the proportion of children unable to read and understand a simple text at 10 years of age—are higher for boys than for girls in all regions and almost all countries of the world. Across various grades and subjects, in many countries boys tend to have poorer learning outcomes than girls, with substantial differences in some countries, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, as regularly demonstrated in international assessments of student learning. For high-income countries, this is not a new development—it has been readily acknowledged and discussed in the literature since the 1990s. What has become increasingly common is the observance of this gap in middle-income countries as well.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/111041644611110155/Educational-Underachievement-Among-Boys-and-Men
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/37484
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/37484
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectEDUCATION OF BOYS
dc.subjectEDUCATIONAL UNDERACHIEVEMENT
dc.subjectCONTRIBUTING FACTORS TO EDUCATIONAL UNDERACHIEVEMENT OF BOYS
dc.subjectSECONDARY EDUCATION RATE
dc.subjectTERTIARY EDUCATION
dc.subjectEDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
dc.subjectLEARNING POVERTY RATE
dc.subjectMIDDLE-INCOME LEARNING ASSESSMENT
dc.titleEducational Underachievement Among Boys and Menen
dc.typeReporten
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okr.crossref.titleEducational Underachievement Among Boys and Men
okr.date.disclosure2022-02-20
okr.date.doiregistration2025-05-07T09:43:46.525750Z
okr.date.lastmodified2022-02-11T00:00:00Zen
okr.doctypeReport
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/111041644611110155/Educational-Underachievement-Among-Boys-and-Men
okr.guid111041644611110155
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum090224b088cdba45_2_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum33728421
okr.identifier.report168668
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okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/111041644611110155/pdf/Educational-Underachievement-Among-Boys-and-Men.pdfen
okr.topicGender::Gender and Development
okr.topicGender::Gender and Education
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Inequality
okr.topicEducation::Educational Sciences
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Inequality
okr.unitEducation MNA (HMNED)
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