Same, Different, Equal Rethinking Single-sex Schooling Rosemary C. Salomone

Format:
Paperback
Publication date:
01 Mar 2005
ISBN:
9780300108316
Dimensions:
304 pages: 228 x 152 x 20mm

In this timely book, Rosemary Salomone offers a reasoned educational and legal argument supporting single-sex education as an alternative to coeducation, particularly in the case of disadvantaged minority students. "Everyone concerned about inequalities in our schools and our society should want to read it." Michael Duffy, Times Educational Supplement "A carefully organized, often lively ...compendium of everything that matters in the debate: how boys and girls do in classes and on tests, their differing learning styles, and the legal tussles." Timothy A. Hacsi, New York Times "Smart, objective, evenhanded. Must reading in this important debate." Susan Estrich, University of Southern California Law School

Rosemary C. Salomone is Kenneth Wang Professor of Law at St. John's University School of Law and a fellow of the Open Society Institute.

"Everyone concerned about inequalities in our schools and our society should want to read it." Michael Duffy, Times Educational Supplement; "A carefully organized, often lively... compendium of everything that matters in the debate: how boys and girls do in classes and on tests, their differing learning styles, and the legal tussles." Timothy A. Hacsi, New York Times; "Smart, objective, evenhanded. Must reading in this important debate." Susan Estrich, University of Southern California Law School"