The Separation Solution? : Single-Sex Education and the New Politics of Gender Equality.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Rethinking Gender Equality -- 2. Single-Sex Education in Historical Perspective -- 3. "We've Got to Try Something": The Male Academy Initiatives -- 4. What about the Girls? -- 5. Single-Sex Education and the Popular Neuroscience of Sex Difference -- 6. Different but Equal?: Reflections on the Future of Gender Discourse -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Since the 1990s, there has been a resurgence of interest in single-sex education across the United States, and many public schools have created all-boys and all-girls classes for students in grades K through 12. The Separation Solution? provides an in-depth analysis of controversies sparked by recent efforts to separate boys and girls at school. Reviewing evidence from research studies, court cases, and hundreds of news media reports on local single-sex initiatives, Juliet Williams offers fresh insight into popular conceptions of the nature and significance of gender differences in education and beyond.

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