Full Description
Educators agree that boys and girls learn differently, but do they learn better in single-sex classes? Single-sex education has become a "hot topic" among educators striving to address achievement declines, especially in the middle school years. Since the United States Department of Education confirmed the legality of single-sex classes in public schools in 2006, the number of single-sex classes and schools has increased dramatically and the options continue to grow in popularity. Debating Single-Sex Education offers a timely and detailed summary of the issues surrounding single-sex education. Eight veteran educators provide research-based findings on single-sex classes in the United States and Africa. This book presents a brief historical summary of single-sex classes in the United States. Other features include recent qualitative case studies, interviews with students, and statistical evidence of the effects of single-sex classes on student achievement. The final chapter synthesizes the common findings among these studies and the implications for practice in schools.
Contents
Chapter 1 Single-Sex Classes: Everything That's Old is New Again
Chapter 2 Jumping Into the Fray: How to Implement Single-Sex Classes
Chapter 3 Bumps Along the Way: Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned
Chapter 4 Having it Our Way: Students Speak Out on Single-Sex Classes
Chapter 5 Going the Distance: Strategies for Teacher Preparation
Chapter 6 Does It Add Up? Single-Sex Classes and Student Achievement
Chapter 7 Good New and Bad News: Student Behavior in Single-Sex Classes
Chapter 8 For Better or Worse: Classroom Dynamics in Single-Sex Science Classes
Chapter 9 We've Always Done it This Way: Single-Sex Classes in Kenya
Chapter 10 Now what? Practical implications
