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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
Thurston, Paul W. – Illinois Teacher of Home Economics, 1977
The following are discussed with reference to title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibit sex discrimination in federally-supported educational programs: What is title IX? The letter of the law--can the school limit home economics to girls? Is a school in noncompliance if over 75 percent of the students in a home economics class…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Equal Education, Federal Legislation, Home Economics Education
Peer reviewedRobinson, Pamela; Smithers, Alan – Research Papers in Education: Policy and Practice, 1999
English researchers compared the academic and social benefits of single sex and coeducational schools, examining test scores and interviewing 100 college students (balanced for sex and type of school) about their experiences and their ease of adjustment to higher education. Results indicated that segregating the sexes did not increase…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Coeducation, College Students, Foreign Countries
Mixell, Deborah J. – 1989
In the United States and in most of the world, a recent trend in education has been movement away from single-sex secondary schooling and toward coeducation. Single-sex schools are closing or merging for reasons that often have very little to do with the academic merits of coeducation or single-sex education at the secondary level. This study…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Annotated Bibliographies, Coeducation
Download full textUnited States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1901
Volume 2 begins with discussion of Hopkins Grammar School history, Greek language issues, and Justin S. Morrill's legislative career. Miscellaneous topics cover Indian Territory, backward children in public schools, U.S. engineering education, Christian Brothers schools founder St. Jean Baptiste de La Salle, public library development, Delft's…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational History, Greek, Legislators
