“…Wachs explores such issues as individual differences in response to stress, medical treatment, parenting styles and teaching approaches, and examines such questions as whether there are certain periods in children's development when they may be more sensitive to specific environmental influences than at other times, and whether girls are more sensitive than boys to parental maltreatment…”

“…Teachers tend to give girls and socio-economically advantaged students better school marks, even if they don’t have better performance and attitudes than boys and socio-economically disadvantaged students. …”

“…This wrap-up volume of the PISA 2000 project presents the key findings, including fascinating findings on reading performance, characteristics of successful students, differences between the interests and study habits of boys and girls, the effect of school climate and resources on student performance, and the effect of school autonomy on performance. …”

“…This attribution can be explained against the background of findings, for example, regarding the percentage of boys attending secondary schools or the school-leaving qualifications achieved. …”

“…And in the Moroccan Jewish writer Albert Swissa's Hebrew novel Aqud, the Moroccan-Israeli main character's identity is uneasily located between the "Moroccan Muslim boy he could have been" and the "Jewish Israeli boy he has become." …”

“…Many tutors has foreign origin and a past of migration in common with the boys that accompany. The project was experienced in six different territories: Milan (lead city), Turin, Bologna, Arezzo, the province of Trento, Friuli. …”