Same, different, equal: rethinking single-sex schooling

Abstract

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. 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 Everyone concerned about inequalities in our schools and our society should want to read it.--Michael Duffy, Times Educational Supplement (U.K.) If you have time for only one book and you really want to be informed about single-sex education, then make it Same, Different, Equal.--John Borst, Education Today The single best book I have read about single-sex education. A must-read for every educator who is concerned about the different outcomes for boys and girls in school.--Michael Thompson, Ph.D, coauthor of Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys