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Direct linkHerr, Kathryn; Arms, Emily – American Educational Research Journal, 2004
This ethnographic study documents how accountability measures skewed the implementation of gender equity reform at one California public middle school serving low-income students of color. In creating single-sex classes throughout the school, the Single Sex Academy (SSA) became the largest public experiment with single-sex schooling in the…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Standardized Tests, Single Sex Schools, Sex Fairness
