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Laster, Carol – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2004
Educators have not been teaching to the learning style of boys, nor have they kept up with recent findings in brain research on the developmental differences between boys and girls. With all the education reform efforts about, with new accountability standards so high, school districts nationwide struggle to balance budgets and increase student…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Student Motivation, Cognitive Style, Single Sex Classes
Swoboda, Marian J., Ed.; Roberts, Audrey J., Ed. – 1980
This anthology of essays, impressions, and sketches attempts to reassess the role of women in the development of public higher education in Wisconsin, especially in the setting of the University of Wisconsin (UW) System. The essays provide a female perspective from the post Civil War days to today. Some essays focus on the beginnings of the…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Educational History, Females, Feminism
Powell, Barbara S.; Powell, Arthur G. – Independent School, 1983
Girls who reject boy-girl social relations as the central concern of adolescence are best served by girls' schools where they can develop a complex sense of self including both risk taking and caring qualities. A study confirming that single sex schools promote girls' intellectual and leadership development is cited. (MJL)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Coeducation, Females, Private Schools
Sharp, Marcia K. – College Board Review, 1979
The executive director of the Women's College Coalition examines the role of women's colleges and explains how they may serve as models in issues of educational equity for coeducational institutions today. The employment of women, encouragement of nontraditional studies, response to women's needs, and recognition of priorities are discussed.…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Equal Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Females
Marjoram, Tom – Gifted Education International, 1994
This paper notes research findings indicating that girls are viewed by their teachers and themselves as having lower intellectual capacity for math and science than boys, points out that girls in girls' schools are more intellectually confident, but argues that segregation for science and math in mixed schools may carry negative messages.…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Elementary Secondary Education, Females, Gifted

Geadelmann, Patricia L. – Quest, 1980
Sex role stereotyping in physical education is viewed in historical perspective. Though Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 was intended to provide equal opportunities for males and females to develop skills in a full range of activities, its implementation has not eradicated the underlying sex stereotypes. (JN)
Descriptors: Coeducation, Educational Legislation, Physical Education, Professional Development

Rury, John L. – Peabody Journal of Education, 1987
Historically, conceptions of gender in education revolved around a distinctive set of assumptions about male and female sexuality. This article focuses on the principal arguments, related to education, associated with sexuality and sex equity during three critical periods in American history: antebellum, latter nineteenth century, early twentieth…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Flocke, Elizabeth Lynne – 1987
The only woman in the first graduating class of the world's first school of journalism at the University of Missouri, Mary Paxton Keeley was offered a position as a special reporter for the "Kansas City Post" in 1910. As was typical for female journalists at the time, most of Paxton's assignments during her 15 months with the…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Educational History, Employed Women, Feminism
Blessing, Benita – History of Education Quarterly, 2005
In this article the author discusses that, at the end of World War II, German educational administrators in the Soviet occupied zone of their nation decided to implement coeducation; that is, the schooling of girls and boys in the same classroom. This policy represents a radical break with German educational traditions, as well as with the western…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Action, Educational Change, Coeducation
Frye, John H. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1995
Discusses the influence of women students and staff on two-year colleges and the influence of the colleges on women between the years 1900 and 1970. Indicates that the two-year college allowed more women to attend college and suggests areas for further research to determine the colleges' impact on their lives. (29 citations) (MAB)
Descriptors: Coeducation, College Curriculum, Community Colleges, Educational History
Ogunsola-Bandele, Mercy F. – 1999
This study examined the differences and similarities experienced by secondary school science teachers when teaching science within and outside their area of specialization in single sex and co-educational schools. Interviews were conducted and audio taped for six experienced science teachers on their qualification, classes/subjects taught and…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Educational Environment, Foreign Countries, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Bauch, Patricia A. – 1989
Rarely when single-sex Catholic secondary schools convert to coed school organization is the potential loss of gender-specific benefits addressed. Since the movement to coeducation is seldom accompanied by the return of a "converted" school to single-sex status, the incalculable loss to the traditional gender diversity of school organization is…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Catholics, Coeducation, Elementary Secondary Education
Deutsch, Helga – 1981
In physical education classes at the secondary school level, objective, sex-fair evaluation is necessary to help each student develop to his or her fullest capacity. Student performance assessment must take into account the physiological differences between males and females after the onset of puberty. Within each sex there is a broad range of…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Adolescents, Athletics, Coeducation

Crosby, Faye; And Others – NWSA Journal, 1994
Reexamines M. Elizabeth Tidball's claim that women who graduate from women's colleges accomplish more than other, similar women who graduate from coeducational colleges. The authors believe Tidball's work is insensitive to class issues and argue that her approach does not control for other factors that might covary with whether the college is…
Descriptors: Coeducation, College Graduates, College Outcomes Assessment, Comparative Analysis
Phillip, Mary-Christine – Black Issues in Higher Education, 1993
Explores why women's colleges, and the education provided by them, are different than coeducational settings. The article explains how women's colleges provide students with value and respect and give them a sense of ownership. It also discusses why women's colleges excel at preparing students for the future. (GLR)
Descriptors: Coeducation, Comparative Analysis, Educational Attitudes, Educational Environment