This is a rich history of girls' schools in America, as well as an illuminating look at the strong convictions of parents and educators that have given birth to the recent wave of new all-girls schools cropping up all over the country.
An assessment of the educational and legal issues surrounding single-sex education. Although co-education has been the norm within private and public schools since the 1970s, single-sex education has staged a comeback in recent years as a means of addressing the academic and social problems faced by some students. Single-sex education raises ...
As the school year drags on, the girls find the new curriculum is a bit more than they can handle. That plus new friends and the distraction of boys and beauty weigh heavy on the minds our four favorite high school girls.
Life at an all-girls school is not quite what its cracked up to be. This volume brings even more tension between the" insiders" and "outsiders." It ain't all "sugar and spice and everything nice" at Yamasaki High!
This book is an essential resource for educators who are teaching or leading schools with single-gender classes, whether they're in public, private, or Catholic schools. It is a 'soup-to-nuts' guide, covering everything from curriculum planning and classroom design to school policies and parent-teacher communication. Whether contemplating this new ...
Michael Ruhlman spent an academic year with the students and teachers at the University School in Cleveland, Ohio--the boys' day school from which he had graduated over a dozen years earlier. In this resulting work, he investigates and describes some of the clear advantages of single-sex education.
This book exposes the complexity of single-sex schooling, and sheds new light on how gender operates in policy and practice in education. The essays collected in this volume cover a wide range of institutions, including K-12 and higher education, (US) public and private schools, and schools in the US and beyond. Detailing the educational ...
Stool samples, lingerie and breast-feeding in public. Are our favorite ladies from the all-girls high school ready for such things? You won't know until you read the next surprising volume of High School Girls.
For Girls Only examines research and public policy regarding single-sex schooling, especially girls-only classes in public, coeducational schools. Since the passage of Title IX in 1972, which calls for equal access and participation regardless of gender, educators have attempted to address gender equity issues in schools. Current research on the ...
Provides both practitioners and policymakers with a focused compilation of the issues surrounding single-sex education. This title includes case studies and evidence of the effects of single-sex education on student achievement.
Hitherto only a small proportion of the research on private education has been on the schooling of girls. Debate on the subject, while often heated, even prejudiced, proceeds largely in ignorance of the historical development of private schooling, the currently changing nature of private schooling, and the wide diversity of provision of private ...
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