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"This study aims to provide a critical overview of the current debate on achievement. It focuses on interviews with young people and classroom observations to examine how boys and girls see themselves as learners, and analyzes the strategies teachers can use to improve the educational achievements of both boys and girls."

"...it becomes increasingly clear that the causes of African Americans' inferior scores on standardized tests have less to do with nature and everything to do with nurture (or lack of it). Not surprisingly, conditions such as poverty and lack of opportunity at the beginning of a child's life seems to have terribly detrimental effects on test scores and thus the chance to go to school or find a well-paying job later on."