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Delesa Franklin; Virginia Snodgrass Rangel – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2024
The purpose of this study was to determine if attending a single-sex, STEM-focused school was related to science and mathematics achievement among a sample of African American and Latina eighth-grade girls in one school district. A nonequivalent group, post-test only design was utilized in the study to mitigate the effects of selection bias. We…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Single Sex Schools, Females, Grade 8
Pustejovsky, James E. – Texas Education Research Center, 2019
The Young Women's Preparatory Network (YWPN) is a private foundation that supports single-sex, college preparatory schools throughout Texas. Over the past fifteen years, the organization has worked through public-private partnerships to establish and support public, all-girls secondary schools in districts across Texas. This study evaluated the…
Descriptors: Single Sex Schools, Females, College Preparation, Partnerships in Education
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Mansfield, Katherine Cumings – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this research article is to illustrate the value of including students' voices in educational leadership and research practices, to more fully understand what students are actually experiencing in transformative learning spaces, and to determine what we might learn from them in terms of how to improve both leadership…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Females, Single Sex Schools, Magnet Schools
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Snowden, Monique L. – Qualitative Inquiry, 2011
This article is a focused response to the call for a "conscious use of crystallization," in qualitative research. To this end, the author brings into play a full-bodied textual metaphor, the "palimpsest," to stimulate the expansion of an integrated crystallization typology--comprised of woven and patched approaches.…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Figurative Language
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Baron, Emilia; Bell, Nancy J.; Corson, Kimberly; Kostina-Ritchey, Erin; Frederick, Helyne – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2012
The narrative creation of identity by young adolescents has so far been addressed mainly from an identity-in-interaction perspective, focusing attention on the multiplicity and variability of identity negotiation as adolescents interact with others, typically with peers. In contrast, a sociocultural/dialogical perspective draws attention to the…
Descriptors: Single Sex Schools, Middle Schools, Sex Education, Females
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Mansfield, Katherine Cumings – Journal of School Leadership, 2013
The purpose of this article is to share the findings from a 2-year ethnography that examined female practitioners' experiences in the field. The article describes the intentions, discourses, actions, and repercussions of female administrators and teachers working to accomplish social justice for racial/ethnic minority girls from challenging…
Descriptors: Women Administrators, Females, Public Schools, Single Sex Schools
Groves-Redwood, Tarawa F. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to determine if there is a statistically significant mean difference in math and reading student performance by types of schools. The types of schools were identified as all-male and all-female public middle schools. Specifically, this study examined the impact of public single-sex schools on the mathematics and…
Descriptors: Single Sex Schools, Statistical Significance, Mathematics Achievement, Reading Achievement
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Mansfield, Katherine Cumings – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2013
Changes to Title IX allowing the growth of single-sex schools have garnered media attention promoting the benefits of separating boys and girls. Alternately, civil rights groups such as the ACLU continue to oppose any type of school segregation. Within this context, a private philanthropy, the Foundation for the Education of Young Women (FEYW) has…
Descriptors: Single Sex Schools, Partnerships in Education, School Districts, Females
Krajewski, Bob – Principal Leadership, 2008
In this article, Fr. Carl Markelz and Harold Maldonado, two veteran inner-city principals, share how they have learned to use their time more efficiently. Fr. Markelz is the principal of Mount Carmel High School, a 900-student, all-male, parochial school in an area of Chicago, Illinois, that is experiencing regentrification. Maldonado is the…
Descriptors: Principals, Single Sex Schools, Males, Parochial Schools
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Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2008
This paper presents a list of resources on what states are doing on the topic of Black male dropouts. These resources are taken from the report abstracts or summaries. This paper is a response to a request asking for these resources. (Contains 5 footnotes.)
Descriptors: Evidence, Educational Research, Dropouts, Males
Cavanagh, Sean – Education Week, 2007
Research shows that girls tend to lose interest in science and math as they move through the education pipeline--a retreat that often begins during middle school. Summer science camps can be part of reversing that trend, some say. Academic camps are on the rise across the country, including ones to get adolescent girls excited about the…
Descriptors: Science Interests, Science Careers, Neighborhoods, Engineering
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1902
After the Commissioner of Education's introduction, Volume 1 presents state school system statistics and a list of U.S. Bureau of Education publications. Chapters cover central European education; Ohio public school legislative history; school consolidation and pupil transportation; U.S. industrial education; educational pathology; formation of an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Educational Legislation, Student Transportation