A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge worked with primary, secondary and special schools to investigate boys' under-achievement. Their report found that some boys go to "considerable lengths to protect their macho image and their sense of self-worth" by indulging in "a range of non-conformist behaviour which frequently prevents them, and others in the same classes, from achieving well". It said many primary schools had successfully addressed this by introducing art-based initiatives such as artists-in-residence schemes,...