Esperanza, School of Hope
Esperanza Academy is a small intensive girls' school in the diverse area of Laurence, Massachusetts in the USA. For 11 hours a day, 11 months a year, girls and teachers work together to provide a route out of poverty and gender-stereotyping.

Collins Middle School, Salem
Collins Middle School in Salem has focused on gender issues and equality over the last few years. This large state mixed school, with a diverse and generally poor population, has experience of gender issues around literacy, achievement, aspirations, subject choice and even sexual harassment. 
  
Literacy Behind Bars
An English teacher, desperate to improve literacy levels for her Year 9 boys, takes a trip to prison to learn about a range of new techniques being used to teach literacy to inmates. 
  
I am Bovvered 
Sue Tinson is on a mission to change the prospects of Britain's most vulnerable teenage girls with her new day school, The Serendipity Centre.  
  
The Trouble with Boys
This programme looks at why boys underachieve, how their methods of learning differ from girls and, most importantly, what schools can do to close this gender gap.

Suggs
The song 'Baggy Trousers' was a chart-topping hit for the band Madness in the early 1980s, inspired by the lead singer Suggs' own experiences as a pupil at Quintin Kynaston School in north London. Now, 25 years later, he returns to his old school for the first time to teach a lesson in song writing with a GCSE music class.

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