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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"single-sex education"”.
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A Comparison of Student Performance in Single-Sex Education and Coeducational Settings in Urban Middle Schools
… 2004, public schools have not only established single-sex schools, but have also established single-sex classrooms within coeducational schools. Most of these modifications were adopted as a means to provide support to lowachieving students, many of who reside in urban settings. Proponents of …
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Unto Perfect Manhood: An Instrumental Case Study of Leadership Formation in an African American Boys High School
… qualitative study investigates the influence of single-sex education on leadership formation at an all boys, urban Catholic high school where a majority of the students come from disadvantaged backgrounds. The researcher has found an association between graduation from a single-sex school and …
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Developing the Girl as a Leader
<p>Single-sex educational environments can create young women who are engaged, active leaders. Girls receive differential treatment in combined-sex education environments. Girls often do not receive the encouragement or instruction to assume leadership. I want to identify the elements of single-sex …
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Understanding student engagement: Insights from an all-girls urban neighborhood public high school
… their decisions to leave school. Advocates for single-sex education argue that students engage and achieve at high levels when learning in this educational model. According to the current literature, students' success in single-sex schools is primarily a result of the proacademic choice that …
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THE IMPACT OF PUBLICY- FUNDED SINGLE-GENDER LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS ON SIXTH GRADE MALE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
This study compares two educational models to investigate whether differences exist in academic achievement among boys in single- gender model and those in a traditional co-gender model. Specifically, the study analyzed archival data from the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness to …
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A Case Study of Single-Sex Biology Classes in a High School in South Georgia
The research on single-sex classrooms, especially in high schools, is at best, sparse. Settings and findings vary so dramatically from one area to another that correlating studies is difficult. However, with the advent of No Child Left Behind (2001), schools have been given the opportunity to …
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Evaluation of Outcomes of a Single-Sex Educational Program at an Elementary School
… of this research was to evaluate outcomes of a single-sex program at an elementary school in Portsmouth, Virginia. Evaluation criteria were (girls' and boys' feelings about being grouped into single-sex education and coeducational classes, (teaching behaviors, (3) student achievement, (4)student …
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Open Gates, Broken Promises: Inclusion Policies and Transgender Student Experiences at Gender-Selective Women's Colleges
Since 2013, over half of all gender-selective women's colleges in the United States have adopted admission policies that outline varying biological, social, and legal criteria for who may apply to their institution. In effect, these policies opened the gates to admission, driven by the goal to be …
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A Study of Effective Instructional Practices for Teaching Boys in All-Boys Independent Schools in Virginia
The purpose of this study was to identify instructional practices that are effective for teaching boys in all-boys, independent schools in Virginia. Teachers' self-reported levels of preparedness to teach boys was also investigated. The study was a basic qualitative study that used a qualitatively …
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Essays On Labor Economics And Public Policy
… effect. My interest in the economics of education is reflected in the second essay of this thesis, which studies a public policy innovation using administrative records. The effects of single-sex education are hotly contested, both in academic and policy circles. Despite this heated …