single-sex schools

Greg Mortenson recounts the experiences he had while trying to help impoverished villages in Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya build schools for their children.

"Two teenagers investigate the strange occurrences of mass hysteria plaguing their all-girls school"--Provided by publisher.

"Seventeen-year-old pranking mastermind Doe Saltpeter abandons her plans to win a rivalry with the neighboring boys' school and instead joins forces with her enemies to protect a younger student from a teacher's inappropriate behavior"--OCLC.

In the fall of 1991, sixteen-year-old transfer student Zooey Orson falls in with a group of boys who share the same secret--one which they can only express openly within the safety of the clandestine gatherings of the Vicious Circle. But when the boys unwittingly happen upon the headmaster's copy of an arcane occult text, they unleash an eldritch secret so terrible, it threatens to consume them all.

Some people strongly believe boys and girls should go to separate schools, while others believe this isn't good for students. Readers will discover the facts on both sides of the debate, and learn to form their own opinions.

Jane Hudson returns to the placid, isolated shores of the lake side school she left twenty years earlier after a terrible tragedy in the hopes of making a fresh start with her young daughter, but when she begins to receive ominous messages from the past, Jane realizes she must first come to terms with the events she has kept buried for so many years.

Contains a summary of the discussion, a literature review, and papers submitted to a forum convened by the AAUW Educational Foundation on November 12, 1997.

Presents educational and legal arguments in favor of single-sex education, providing accounts of three inner-city all-girls' public schools, discussing the myths and realities of gender and schooling, and considering the questions of how best to provide an appropriate education for girls and boys.

Collects ten essays that provide varying perspectives on the topic of single sex education and offer information about the controversial educational philosophy.

Makes a case in favor of all-girl schooling, based on the results of the author's observations of two very different girls' schools, including Marlborough School, an elite prep school in Los Angeles, and The Young Women's Leadership School in East Harlem.