Despite a lack of scientific evidence supporting the use of single-sex education, the number of US public schools offering single-sex education has increased. However, our understanding as to why decision-makers have implemented single-sex education is lacking. To address this gap, we surveyed US public school principals and assessed their…

This study utilized a mixed-methods approach to holistically examine single-sex and coeducational urban elementary mathematics classes through situated cognitive theory. Participants came from two urban low-income Midwestern elementary schools with a high representation of minority students (n = 77 sixth graders, n = 4 teachers, n = 2 principals).…

Half the post-primary school teachers in Northern Ireland are men, yet 75.6 percent of the post-primary principals are men. This paper attempts to relate this disparity to school management structure, religious status, and sex-distributed features among post-primary teachers. (Note: Page f...=fiche numbers.) (BW)

Volume I begins with the Commissioner of Education's introduction and a survey of education progress from 1900 to 1910. Subsequent chapters cover higher education, education legislation, recent progress in city schools, U.S. library extension programs, current education topics across education sectors and jurisdictions, industrial-education…

In volume 1, the Commissioner of Education introduces topics to be covered in the report and discusses the Bureau of Education's work. Chapter 1 concerns current education topics, including education boards and commissions, education associations, higher education, education standardization, public schools, departments and branches of study,…

After an introduction by the Commissioner of Education, chapters I and II of volume 1 cover reports from the Mosely Educational Commission to the United States. Chapter III addresses proceedings instituted to execute the Rhodes Scholarship Trust. Subsequent chapters cover French education, agriculture teaching in French and Belgian schools,…

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…

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…