Interviewed key stakeholders and observed classes at California single sex schools to investigate how context mediated policy. As educators responded to California's single sex academic legislation, they designed schools and used resources to address each community's needs. Actions and idealogies of individuals in each setting (classroom, school,…

In 1997, California became the first state to conduct large-scale experimentation with single gender public education. This longitudinal study examined the impact of single gender academies in six California districts, focusing on equity implications. Data from observations and interviews with educators, policymakers, and students indicated that…

This article examines heterosexist assumptions and the role of homophobia in students' experiences in California's public "Single Gender Academies," in an effort to include issues of sexuality in current discourses on adolescent gender identity and public school reform. Interviews with students, conducted as part of the most…