GENDER AND DIFFERENTIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN EDUCATION

... GENDER AND DIFFERENTIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN EDUCATION In the past, education was almost always for boys; the education of girls was restricted in many ways. The early public schools were for boys only; the first public schools were for girls, such as Cheltenham Ladies College, were founded in the mid-nineteenth century. Following the education act of 1870, most girls and boys went to mixed elementary schools, but most secondary schools were single sex until the 1960's. In the tripartite system of secondary education for all established by the 1944 education act, there were fewer places for girls in grammar schools, and girls needed higher scores in the eleven plus test to get into a grammar school. Before the national curriculum girls tended to study subjects that would prepare them for their future roles as housewives and mothers. Subjects such as science were irrelevant to them. The introduction of the national curriculum

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