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Ludwig, Peter H. – Zeitschrift fur Padagogik, 2003
Argues that the thesis of discrimination against girls in coeducation schools has been replaced by a belief that, during certain phases or in specific subjects, abandonment of coeducation would promote equal opportunities. Questions whether classic or recent surveys provide empirical evidence for this moderate skeptical attitude towards…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Kaufman, Polly Welts, Ed. – 1991
This collection of essays describes women's ongoing search for equity at Brown University, Rhode Island, since their first entrance there in 1891. After a preface by Joan W. Scott and an introduction by Polly Welts Kaufman, the volume contains the following 10 essays: "The Woman's Club Movement Creates and Defines the Women's College" by…
Descriptors: Alumni, Careers, Coeducation, Cultural Context
Lydiard, Beverly W., Ed.; Miller, Natalie, Ed. – 1975
This document is devoted to helping teachers and administrators develop programs that creatively interpret Chapter 622, the Massachusetts State law that prohibits discrimination in the schools on the basis of sex, race, religion, color, or national origin. The majority of the programs identified focus on ways of expanding opportunities for…
Descriptors: Athletics, Bilingual Education, Coeducation, Curriculum Development
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Napper-Owen, Gloria E.; Kovar, Susan K.; Ermler, Kathy L.; Mehrhof, Joella H. – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 1999
Surveyed high school physical educators regarding required physical education programs, examining hidden curriculum about gender equity and culture. Team sports dominated the instructional units. Teachers had problems involving all students in coeducational activities. Female teachers were more apt to teach outside their socially accepted area of…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Cultural Awareness, Educational Environment, Equal Education
Association of American Colleges, Washington, DC. Project on the Status and Education of Women. – 1975
This occasional newsletter summarizes a variety of activities concerning women on campuses and in the job market across the United States. Topics covered in the newsletter are affirmative action and employment, education of women, coeducation and admissions, and sports. A number of specific reports of activities are found under each topic. For…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Coeducation, Equal Education
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Van Heule, Kathleen – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2000
Describes the education community and coeducation in Flanders, examining major disadvantages related to contemporary problems in education; discussing what the government and teacher education institutions have done to prepare teachers for coeducation; and noting how the introduction of coeducation into the complex Belgian school structure, which…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Foreign Countries
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Sandler, Bernice Resnick; And Others – 1996
This report assesses how the classroom climate is affected by classroom structure, power dynamics within the classroom, different pedagogical styles, the curriculum, and the relationships between male and female students. Data come from quantitative and qualitative studies in classrooms at all levels and in related settings, along with surveys,…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Coeducation, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
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Miller-Bernal, Leslie – American Journal of Education, 1993
Analysis of a panel study of 260 women at 4 colleges (women's college, coordinate of men's college, long-time coeducational college, recently coeducational college) to evaluate why alumnae of women's colleges succeed more than graduates of coeducational colleges. Role models and college activities and their effects on self-esteem are considered.…
Descriptors: Achievement, Coeducation, College Graduates, Comparative Analysis
Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield. Equal Educational Opportunity Section. – 1982
This monograph presents a discussion of the problems involved in implementing sex-fair coeducational classes in physical education. Suggestions, which grew out of a symposium on coeducational physical education, are offered on procedures that may be used for ability grouping, such as what type of test(s) are appropriate and when to use single or…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Coeducation, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
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Saferstein, Bennett L. – University of Pittsburgh Law Review, 1993
Attempts to develop a theory of separate but equal single-sex education that respects equal protection, drawing on a recent decision involving the Virginia Military Institute. The central aspect and potential safeguard against inequity lies in requiring that single-sex options be unique only in admissions policy. (SLD)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Coeducation, Court Litigation
Campbell, Kathleen T.; Evans, Cay – 1993
This paper discusses a study that compared enrollment patterns in advanced math and science courses of (n=720) junior and senior girls in public coed and parochial all-girls high schools in Louisiana. The study also examined survey responses regarding career goals and positive and negative career influences on girls. The same survey responses from…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Coeducation, Equal Education, Females
Gillett, Margaret – 1981
Nineteenth-century assumptions about the nature of women, her educability, her role in society, and debates about coeducation are examined in this record of the efforts of the first women students to gain entrance in McGill University in Canada. The introduction offers historical background, ideas of women, and the opening of higher education to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Coeducation, College Admission, College Students
Haines, Patricia Foster – 1979
Literature from the late nineteenth century and a case study of Cornell University between 1870 and 1900 are discussed in relation to higher education of women to explore how contemporary theorists and academic administrators dealt with the issues. Theoretical definitions of "equal" opportunities for women in academe shifted from…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Coeducation, College Students, Educational History
Jha, Jyotsna, Kelleher, Fatimah – Commonwealth of Learning, 2006
Gender disparity in education has usually been experienced as disadvantaging girls. Although this continues to be the case in many places, the phenomenon of boys' underachievement--both in terms of participation and performance--has also become an issue in a number of countries. This book reviews the research on boys' underachievement and presents…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Underachievement, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
Jacobson, Abbe; And Others – 1995
This article reports a study of the public policy implications of publicly supported primary and secondary single-sex education in the United States. Twenty-two public intellectuals concerned with educational issues were interviewed. Subjects were either academic researchers, government officials and legislators, directors of public interest…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Coeducation, Compliance (Legal), Educational Legislation
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