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Same, different, equal : rethinking single-sex schooling / Rosemary C. Salomone.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Salomone, Rosemary C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Single-sex schools--United States.
- Single-sex schools.
- Women--Education (Secondary)--United States.
- Women.
- Sex differences in education--United States.
- Sex differences in education.
- Educational equalization--United States.
- Educational equalization.
- Feminism and education--United States.
- Feminism and education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Although coeducation 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 controversy on ideological grounds, and in 1996 the Supreme Court struck down the all-male admissions policy at the Virginia Military Institute in a decision that has cast a legal cloud over public initiatives. In this timely book, Rosemary Salomone offers a reasoned educational and legal argument supporting single-sex education as an alternative to coeducation, particularly in the case of disadvantaged minority students.Salomone examines the history of women's education and exclusion, philosophical and psychological theories of sameness and difference, findings on educational achievement and performance, the research evidence on single-sex schooling, and the legal questions that have arisen. Correcting many of the current misconceptions about single-sex education, she argues that it is a viable option and that the road to gender equality should be paved with diverse educational opportunities for all students-regardless of race, class, or gender.
- Contents:
- Text and subtext
- A tale of three cities
- Equality engendered
- Myths and realities in the gender wars
- Who's winning, who's losing, and why?
- Legal narratives
- Reconciling the law
- The research evidence
- Rethinking single-sex schooling.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786611729479
- 9781281729477
- 1281729477
- 9780300129144
- 0300129149
- OCLC:
- 952731855
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