Full Description
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.
Contents
Preface: The Debate Continues: Single Sex Classes in the 21st Century
Frances Spielhagen
Introduction to the Second Edition
Frances Spielhagen
Context and Background
Chapter 1-School choice -- or threat to civil liberties?
Frances Spielhagen and Robin Kohl
Chapter 2-Do boys and girls learn differently? Implications for practice
Michael Gurian
Chapter 3-Bullying and Single-Sex classes
Frances Spielhagen and Vivian Milczarski
Chapter 4-Single-sex parochial schools for Catholic, Jewish, and Islamic Children: Why, or why not?
Bruce Cooper
Early Research
Chapter 5-Jumping into the fray: How to implement single sex classes
Deborah Marks and C. Sloan Burns
Chapter 6-Bumps along the way: Mistakes made and lessons learned
Suzanne Schwarz-McCotter
Chapter 7-Going the distance: Strategies for teacher preparation
Margaret Ferrara
Chapter 8-Does it all add up? Single sex classes and student achievement
Frances Spielhagen
Chapter 9-Good news and bad news: Student behavior in single sex classes
Margaret Ferrara and Peter Ferrara
Chapter 10-Having it our way:Students speak out on single sex classes
Frances Spielhagen
Chapter 11-The Influence of Classroom Dynamics on Teachers' Decisions to Provide Single Gender Mathematics and Science Classes in Middle School
Karen B. Rogers
Chapter 12- The view from the trenches: Teachers evaluate single-sex classes
Frances R. Spielhagen
Chapter 13-"We've always done it this way."Single sex classes in Kenya
Robin Kohl
Synthesis and Resources
Chapter 14-Now what? Implications for practice
Karen Rogers
Chapter 15-Resources on bullying
Vivian Milczarski
