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Wylie, Cathy; Berg, Melanie – New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2014
This report explores the achievement of school leavers from state and state-integrated boys' schools. The analysis from 2010 to 2012 shows school leavers from state boys' schools had higher qualifications than their male counterparts who attended state co-educational schools. The research was carried out for the Association of Boys' Schools of New…
Descriptors: Males, Single Sex Schools, Academic Achievement, Public Schools
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Weis, Lois; Cipollone, Kristin – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2013
Drawing upon two ethnographic studies of affluent and elite co-educational secondary schools in the United States, Weis and Cipollone spotlight the explicit "class work" of a now highly insecure middle/upper middle class, as they attempt to maintain advantage via entrance to particularly located post-secondary destinations. Affirming the…
Descriptors: Advantaged, Social Mobility, Selective Admission, Secondary Schools
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1911
The work of this committee has been done in large part by three subcommittees, as follows: (1) On men's colleges; (2) On women's colleges; and (3) On coeducational colleges. The facts presented in these reports have been gathered from 60 or more leading colleges by the Bureau of Education through the use of a questionnaire, and have been…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Criticism, College Mathematics, Inferences
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1905
The Commissioner's introduction to Volume 1 includes state school system statistics. Chapter I addresses vacation schools, playgrounds, and settlements, with discussion of poor children in major cities, playground conditions, playground social conditions, play psychology, and settlement-movement history. Subsequent chapters cover laws concerning…
Descriptors: School Statistics, Vacation Programs, Playgrounds, Urban Youth