Voices of Hope: Adolescent Girls at Single Sex and Coeducational Schools

by Carole B. Shmurak

Fueled by media reports of gender bias in the schools, the debate over single sex education has been recently renewed. Voices of Hope asks for a reconsideration of the framing of that debate. For whom is single sex education better? For the attainment of which goals? What do girls gain by being schooled with male peers? What is lost?
In this longitudinal study of more than fifty high school girls at four New England independent schools,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820438340
• ISBN13: 9780820438344
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 220 Pages