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Examine the Reasons for Differences in Educational Achievement between Different Ethnic Groups
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Examine the reasons why females now tend to achieve more than males in the education system Females are now able to achieve more in the education system. This is due to the pattern of achievement. Since the early 90's females have been achieving higher and high and have clearly overtaken males. In 2003/4 the females had taken over males by 20% in achieving 5 or more A*-C GCSE grades. This astronomical gender gap is now causing some sociologists to be concerned in male underachievement in the education system. However, being publicised by the media, males are not underachieving; they are not improving as quickly as females. Sociologists such as Sue Sharpe and Weiner, Arnot and David look at the reasons for the female's success. Whereas sociologists, like Paul Willis and Mitsos and Browne suggest reasons for male underachievement. Sue Sharpe's study discovered that in the 1970's girls had low expectations and...
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