Alarm as white working class boys fail to keep up with 民族の peers

By LAURA CLARK

Last updated at 22:00 12 January 2007

White working-class boys are 落ちるing その上の behind all other groups at school, 公式の／役人人物／姿／数字s have shown.

A 破滅的な報告（する）／憶測 from the Tories has already 明らかにする／漏らすd them to be the worst-成し遂げるing group at GCSEs, behind 黒人／ボイコット and Asian youngsters from 類似の backgrounds.

? 規模 of grade インフレーション laid 明らかにする as 50 per cent of students 伸び（る）最高の，を越す honours

Now new 統計（学） have 明らかにする／漏らすd the other groups are 改善するing more quickly than white boys, 原因（となる）ing them to slip その上の behind.

The 人物／姿／数字s 誘発するd 恐れるs that support for the British 国家の Party could grow 予定 to the 欠如（する） of 財政上の support for struggling white youngsters.

明確な／細部認めるs for 民族の少数，小数派 pupils are 始める，決める to rise to ￡178million next 財政上の year.

によれば the 人物／姿／数字s, just 24 per cent of white boys who get 解放する／自由な school meals now leave school with five or more GCSEs at grades A* to C.

This compares with 33.7 per cent per cent for 黒人／ボイコット African boys who also receive 解放する／自由な meals 予定 to low 世帯 income.

The 人物／姿／数字 for Pakistani boys is 37.8 per cent, Bangladeshis 48.2 per cent and Indian boys 48.3 per cent while poor Chinese boys are even その上の ahead on 65 per cent.

However the 人物／姿／数字s, 明らかにする／漏らすd in the Times 教育の補足（する）, also show that white working-class boys 改善するd more slowly than other groups over the past three years.

Their 株 of high-grade GCSEs 改善するd seven per cent but the number of poor Bangladeshi boys rose by more than 12 per cent, while Pakistani boys 改善するd almost 10 per cent. 黒人／ボイコット boys 支えるd their 得点する／非難する／２０ by more than nine per cent.

Only traveller families 改善するd いっそう少なく quickly than white boys, with a 得点する／非難する／２０ of just five per cent.

The 人物／姿／数字s （機の）カム as 研究 by Manchester University academic s 設立する that money was 存在的d at pupils with English as an 付加 language.

"White learners from 高度に disadvantaged backgrounds were 報道によれば often overlooked" their 報告（する）／憶測 said.

One 地元の当局 officer told 研究員s that "white poverty and underachievement aren't as headline grabbing or sexy".

John Bangs, 長，率いる of education at the 国家の Union of Teachers, 述べるd the 欠如（する） of help as a "gift to the BNP".

Cameron ワット, of the Centre for Social 司法（官） which helped the Tories 収集する a 報告（する）／憶測 on the 問題／発行する, said: "There's a political ロビー最高潮の場面ing the 問題／発行する of under-業績／成就の中で黒人／ボイコット boys, and やめる rightly so, but I don't think there's a 選び出す／独身事業／計画（する）特に for white working-class boys.

"I don't want to 動かす up racial 憎悪 but this is something that should be 演説（する）／住所d."

A DfES 広報担当者 said the 業績／成果 of white working-class boys had 改善するd more quickly in the past year.

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