Separate and unequal?
Tags: YOUNG Women's Leadership School of East Harlem; EDUCATION; AMERICAN Association of University Women; SOCIAL sciences
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- No boys? No problem, says all-girls school. Lanier, Kristina // Christian Science Monitor;2/9/99, Vol. 91 Issue 51, p18
Examines the success of the Young Women's Leadership School, New York City. Controversy over the all-girls public school; Views of the school's principal, Celenia Chevere; Those who oppose the school's exclusion of boys; The school's rapid expansion; The school's founder, Ann Rubenstein;...
- No boys allowed. // Current Events;10/17/97, Vol. 97 Issue 6, p3
Presents information on a situation involving an all girls school in New York called the Young Women's Leadership School, in which the topic of whether boys should be admitted at the school. Indepth look at the situation; Reference to Title IX.
- Do we know how to improve schools? Yes! Lemelle, Wilbert // New York Amsterdam News;8/17/96, Vol. 87 Issue 33, p11
Opinion. Comments on the plan of the Fourth School District in New York City to open an all-girls school in East Harlem called Young Women's Leadership School. Planned emphasis on science and mathematics; Plan to enroll the first class of about 60 seventh graders in September 1996; Criticisms...
- Single-sex education after VMI: Equal protection and East Harlem's Young Women's Leadership School. Corcoran, Carrie // University of Pennsylvania Law Review;Apr97, Vol. 145 Issue 4, p987
Opinion. Examines the constitutionality of Young Women's Leadership School (YWLS) in East Harlem, New York, New York under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. Facts and circumstances surrounding YWLS; Emphasis on the two most important cases pertaining to single-sex education.
- Students at all-girls' school don't miss boys at all. Marie-Schriffen, Danielle; Victoria, Jasmine // New York Amsterdam News;01/25/97, Vol. 88 Issue 4, p18
Presents an interview with students of the Young Leadership School, an all-girls' school in New York, by Children's Express, on their feelings about attending an all-girls' school. Contact information for Children's Express.
- Merits, demerits of single-sex ed raised in Harlem. Baldauf, Scott // Christian Science Monitor;9/4/96, Vol. 88 Issue 196, p1
Reports on the opening of the Young Women's Leadership School in east Harlem, New York City in September 1996. Comeback for single-sex education; Efforts to set up public schools for inner-city boys; Possible effectiveness of such schools; Arguments offered by people who support same-gender...
- Girls only? // Christian Science Monitor;9/5/96, Vol. 88 Issue 197, p20
Comments on the admission policy of the Young Women's Leadership School that opened in Harlem, New York City on September 4, 1996. Legality of accepting only women in the school; Efforts of school planners in avoiding possible lawsuits; Support for single-sex schools.
- The case for an all-girls public school. // America;8/30/1997, Vol. 177 Issue 5, p3
Editorial. Focuses on the constitutionality of single-gender public education. Formal complaint filed by Norman Siegel of the New York Civil Liberties Union, brought about by his displeasure with the Young Women's Leadership School in East Harlem; Background information of the Notre Dame...
- JESSICA ALBA STEPS UP. Kahn, Howie // Marie Claire (US);Mar2008, Vol. 15 Issue 3, p114
The article focuses on actress Jessica Alba's conversation with girl students of Young Women's Leadership School in New York City at a workshop at the school, being hosted by Step Up Women's Network, a national women's and girl's empowerment organization. It discusses her looks and pregnancy. It...
