Living in Philadelphia and looking at this wealthy generation, all of whom began as poor boys, and you want capital to begin on?
For example, in 2009, more than three quarters of poor boys and girls failed to achieve the minimum benchmark of learning outcomes in Albania, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and the Republic of Moldova.
However, your argument that the problem is really one of poverty rather than race or gender (as very poor white boys who receive free school meals do slightly worse than very poor black boys) is flawed.
Black Afro-Caribbean boys are among the lowest achievers in England's education system, alongside poor white working class boys, according to official statistics.
Kids from poor and broken homes, boys especially, need successful role models from the real world.
Fiction aimed at pre-teenage boys contained especially poor role models.
The poor performance of many white working class boys in schools is something that has been highlighted in the past, particularly by England's schools watchdog Ofsted.
In his speech, Mr Denham said disadvantaged white boys had more in common with their poor black classmates than with middle-class white people.
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Will the secretive boys invest the money, give it to the poor, spend it on video games?
Money set aside for more investment in teachers and training should extend to meeting the needs of the most marginalized -- 18 million blind and disabled boys and girls, as well as rural girls from poor households.
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Only about 37% of poor girls between the ages of 15 and 17 attend school compared to 90% of wealthy boys and 87% of wealthy girls.
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