Debating Single-Sex Education

Frances R. Spielhagen

doi:10.5771/9781610488716

Summary

Debating Single Sex Education: Separate and Equal, 2nd edition, provides a balanced summary of the context, concerns, and findings about single sex education in 21st Century United States.

Few school reforms have engendered as much controversy as single sex public education.

This book examines the history of single-sex classes and legislation that has over time evolved to render the reform legal, even though it continues to be subject to public scrutiny and litigation. The book also provides insights into the social, religious, and cultural contexts that set the stage for the growing popularity of single-sex education over the last decade. It explains controversial brain-based research and addresses the problem of bullying in single-sex classes. Finally, the book includes findings based on research in single-sex schools across the nation. Do single-sex classes work? This book provides information that will allow the reader to make an informed decision about that question. Debating Single Sex Education: Separate and Equal,2nd edition, strives to inform the debate and add to the discourse on this popular school reform.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2013
ISBN-Print: 978-1-61048-870-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-61048-871-6
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 231
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Preface: The Debate Continues No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction: Overview of the Second Edition No access Pages 1 - 6
1. 1 School Choice—Or Threat to Civil Liberties? No access
2. 2 How Boys and Girls Learn Differently No access
3. 3 Bullying in Single-Sex Schools No access
4. 4 Single-Sex Parochial Schools No access
1. 5 Jumping into the Fray No access
2. 6 Bumps along the Way No access
3. 7 Going the Distance No access
4. 8 Does It Add Up? No access
5. 9 Good News and Bad News No access
6. 10 Having It Our Way No access
7. 11 The Influence of Classroom Dynamics on Teachers’ Decisions to Provide Single-Gender Mathematics and Science Classes in Middle School No access
8. 12 The View from the Trenches No access
9. 13 “We’ve Always Done It This Way” No access
1. 14 Now What? No access
2. 15 Bullying in Young-Adult Literature No access
About the Contributors No access Pages 229 - 231