Single-Sex Schools: A Place to Learn

Cornelius Riordan

doi:10.5771/9781475813654

Summary

Single sex schooling might appear to be an obscure issue on the sidelines of the educational policy debates of our times. But it is far from this. In fact, a sizable number of people and political organizations would like to make these schools obscure, but somehow they are “scaling up” rather than down.

In 1996, there were only two public single sex schools operating in America. By 2015 there are now at least 100 public single sex schools, despite opposition from the outset. These schools are primarily serving poor, urban, black and Latino, at risk children.

This book takes up the challenge of studying the effectiveness of single sex schools. Riordan frees the discussion of its ideological and political baggage and brings a degree of theoretical and empirical balance to the debate. The book provides a sociological foundation for considering single sex schools. The basic argument is that the larger school context of all girls or all boys serves as the driving factor for producing favorable outcomes in single sex schools.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2015
Copyright Year: 2015
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4758-1364-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4758-1365-4
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 74
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1 Educational Politics and Educational Policy No access Pages 1 - 11
2 Some Simple Assumptions No access Pages 12 - 18
3 What Are School Effects and How Do We Measure Them? No access Pages 19 - 27
4 What Do We Know about Single-Sex School Effects? No access Pages 28 - 37
5 The Effects of Single-Sex Schools Are Larger for At-Risk Students No access Pages 38 - 44
6 What Do We Know about Public Single-Sex Schools? No access Pages 45 - 49
7 Why Are Single-Sex Schools More Effective Than Coeducational Schools? No access Pages 50 - 59
8 Groups and Organizations Matter No access Pages 60 - 67
References No access Pages 68 - 74