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An International Comparison of Equity in Education Systems
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Gorard, Stephen; Smith, Emma – Comparative Education, 2004
This paper uses pupil responses to the PISA study in 2000 for all EU countries. Using indicators of the pupil intakes to schools and their outcomes it computes segregation indices for 15 countries, and then tries to explain the resulting patterns in terms of the characteristics of national school systems. Segregation by sex in each country is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Females, Single Sex Schools
The American Journal of Education. Volume V
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Barnard, Henry, Ed. – American Journal of Education, 1858
This document presents Volume V of the bound journal, "American Journal of Education." The journal was established to enter into a range of education-related discussion and investigation. Among the topics covered by the articles in this volume are: John Kingsbury and the Young Ladies' High School in Providence, Rhode Island; ventilation…
Descriptors: High Schools, Single Sex Schools, Females, Housing
Senior Instructors and the Women's Movement in the Struggle for Female Education, Illustrated by the Example of Girls' Secondary Education in Hamburg.
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Kleinau, Elke – European Education, 1992
Contends that the growth of secondary education for females in Germany brought conflict between the girls' school teachers and female teachers who were involved in the women's rights movement. Discusses the vocational educational goals of the earlier schools and the liberal arts-professional goals of the newer upper secondary schools. (CFR)
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy, Females, Foreign Countries
Traditions, Results, and Perspectives of Feminist School Research.
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Nyssen, Elke; Schon, Barbel – Zeitschrift fur Padagogik, 1992
Contends that feminist school research should not be limited to the consequences of coeducational and monoeducational schooling. Reviews feminist school research and recommends that it continue to focus on the school reform movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Contends that the aim of feminist school research should be to abolition the existing…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Educational Change, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Partielle Geschlechtertrennung--Enttauschte Hoffnungen? Monoedukative Lernumgebungen zum Chancenausgleich im Unterricht auf dem Prufstand (Partial Separation of the Sexes--Disappointed Hopes? An Assessment of Non-Educative Learning Environments for Equalizing Educational Opportunities).
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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
Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year Ending June 30, 1908. Volume 1
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United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1908
Volume I begins with the Commissioner of Education's introduction of the 1908 report. Chapter I is on current topics and discusses education relations, including professor, teacher and student exchanges. International congresses are discussed, including the first international congress of mothers, parents' national education union, universal…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Peer Relationship, Conferences (Gatherings), Mothers