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Presents an exercise to help high school students make decisions as US Supreme Court justices, on the issue of accepting girls into exclusive schools for men such as the military school. Constitutional provisions related to the issue; Arguments for and against it.
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Recounts the author's experience at an all-girls' school that turned out to be a conservative, traditional, and elitist academy, instead of the progressive institution that it touted itself to be. Initial difficulties encountered at the school; School's lack of a feminist vision; Factors that...
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Reports on the burning of schools for girls in Kabul, Afghanistan. Reason behind the burning; Reaction of the girls' parents to the incident; Status of education for girls in the country.
- Comparisons of Selected Student and Teacher Variables in
All-Girls and Coeducational Physical Education Environments. Derry, Julie A.; Phillips, D. Allen // Physical Educator;Late Winter2004, Vol. 61 Issue 1, p23
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- With No Boys to Ogle, We Had Time to Learn. Flowers, Christine // Newsweek;10/24/2005, Vol. 146 Issue 17, p26
Presents the author's view that single-sex education is a better academic system than coeducational systems. How her experience allowed her to concentrate on classwork and studies rather than dating; Distraction of having someone of the opposite sex in the same class; How single-sex education...
- GIRLS & MONEY: A Coordinated Approach to
Financial Literacy. Colletti, Carolyn // Independent School;Fall2003, Vol. 63 Issue 1, p62
Discusses a coordinated approach to financial literacy for girls created by the National Coalition of Girls' Schools in the U.S. Importance of financial literacy for women; Results of a study on the financial skills of teenage girls, conducted by the Simmons College School of Management; Growth...
- Three cheers for a school of their own. McGuire, Patricia // U.S. Catholic;Sep2003, Vol. 68 Issue 9, p24
Focuses on the educational success of single-sex institutions in the U.S. Benefits obtained from school for women; Primary goal of women's schools; Criticisms on single-sex education.
- Separate Boys and Girls? Survor, Marcus; Arzate, Egna // Scholastic News -- Edition 4;10/22/2007, Vol. 70 Issue 6, p7
The article presents two views on whether boys and girls should be educated in separate classrooms in public schools. Marcus Suruor of California states that boys and girls should be educated in different classrooms because sometimes they distract each other when they are together. Egna Arzate...
- Single-sex public schools. // America;9/14/1996, Vol. 175 Issue 6, p3
Editorial. Comments on the United States Supreme Court's decision in the case against the all-male Virginia Military Institute (V.M.I.). Impact of decision on single-sex schools in the US; Violation of Equal Protection Clause by not providing women with the same educational opportunities as...
