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Payne, Monica A.; Newton, Earle H. – Australian Journal of Education, 1990
Teachers (N=246) and students (N=1186) in government secondary schools in Barbados rated coeducation as most advantageous in its ability to prepare students for future occupational and interpersonal roles but to impact negatively on students' school conduct. Male students had more positive views on coeducation than did females. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Coeducation, Comparative Analysis, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Harker, Richard; Nash, Roy – 1997
In New Zealand, single-sex public schools are held in greater esteem by the community. Because single-sex public schools are more popular than coeducational public schools, the single-sex schools in larger population areas have selective admission policies to screen the large number of applicants. This paper argues that single-sex schools end up…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Coeducation, Elementary Secondary Education, Females
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Daly, Peter; Defty, Neil – Evaluation and Research in Education, 2004
This is a preliminary report on an aspect of single-sex education in British secondary schools. It is based on a reanalysis of data on students' performance in mathematics in the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) in 2001. Students' attitudes to mathematics were also investigated. Girls' achievement within girls' schools was…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Single Sex Schools, Public Schools, Secondary Schools
Streitmatter, Janice L. – 1999
This book examines research and public policy regarding single-sex schooling, particularly girls-only classes in public, coeducational schools. The book explains that since the passage of Title IX in 1972, which calls for equal access and participation regardless of gender, educators have attempted to address gender equity issues in schools. It…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Educational Practices, Educational Research, Females
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Silins, Halia C.; Murray-Harvey, Rosalind – Journal of Educational Administration, 1999
Identifies characteristics of good (Australian) senior secondary schools, defined as those providing postschool options for students. The most successful schools were the larger independent girls' schools with predominantly transformational leadership practices that promoted positive teacher perceptions of school organization and of students'…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Coeducation, Foreign Countries, High Schools
Federbush, Marcia – 1973
The report compiled by the Committee to Eliminate Sex Discrimination in the Public Schools, Ann Arbor, Michigan, for their Board of Education, points out the areas of school life in which females are not given the chance or the encouragement to aspire to competence. Four areas of particular disadvantage are stereotyping in books, athletic…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Educationally Disadvantaged, Nondiscriminatory Education, Public Schools
Clarke, M. T. – CORE, 1979
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)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Catholic Schools, Coeducation, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
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Marks, Helen M. – International Journal of Educational Research, 2002
This chapter reviews the research on school composition and peer effects from three comparative perspectives--Catholic and public schools, single-sex and coeducational schools, and small and large schools. Most of the research is sociological, focuses on high schools, and draws on national samples. The chapter seeks to discern cumulative trends in…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Catholic Schools, Coeducation, Economically Disadvantaged
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1896
This is the Report of the Commissioner of Education, part of the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1895. The Bureau of Education report is contained within volume five, which is in two parts. Part one contains: (1) The Commissioner of Education's Introduction; (2) Statistics of State Common-School…
Descriptors: Statistical Data, Public Schools, Urban Schools, Secondary Schools
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Delfabbro, Paul; Winefield, Tony; Trainor, Sarah; Dollard, Maureen; Anderson, Sarah; Metzer, Jacques; Hammarstrom, Anne – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006
;This study examined the nature and prevalence of bullying/victimization by peers and teachers reported by 1,284 students (mean age = 15.2 years) drawn from a representative sample of 25 South Australian government and private schools. Students completed a self-report survey containing questions relating to teacher and peer-related bullying,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Educational Environment, Gender Differences
Marsh, Herbert W. – 1990
Growth during the last 2 years of high school was examined in public and Catholic high schools using data from the High School and Beyond database--a large, nationally representative study. Earlier research was extended by considering: (1) affective variables (e.g., self-concept, locus of control), academic choices (e.g., course selection), and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Catholic Schools
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1911
The purpose of high-school education has generally been twofold--not only to furnish preparation for college, but also to provide some of the elements of a liberal education for those whose formal and directed study is to go no further. In not a few communities high schools were established in which the former purpose was expressly waived; but…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, College Preparation, Mathematics Education, Correspondence Schools
Parmelee, G. W., Ed. – Canadian Subscription and Publishing Co., 1900
This document contains issues of "The Educational Record of the Province of Quebec" from January 1900 through December 1900. Among the topics covered in this volume are: Annual Convention of Protestant Teachers, co-operation of parent and teacher, future of kindergarten, the neglected child, the rights of children, status of education at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Meetings, Protestants
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1891
Volume I of the 1888-1889 "Report of the Commissioner of Education" is in the two parts and begins with the Commissioner of Education's introduction which includes general statistics; grade of instruction; school property; education in the south; comparison of German, French, and American schools; course of study; the educational systems…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, School Statistics, Educational Facilities
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1912
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…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Educational Legislation, Urban Schools
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