Single+Sex+Schooling+Rachel+Evans

= RAHS Note Page =

Source
Stromquist, Nelly P. __The Gender Socialization Process in Schools: A Cross-National Comparison__. 2007. __UNESCO Documents and Publications.__ UNESCO. 3 March 2010 .

Summary/Direct Quote
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/ulis/cgi-bin/ulis.pl?catno=155587&set=4BDED5E0_2_269&gp=1&mode=e&lin=1&ll=1

-Single sex schooling is advocated in efforts to increase the academic performance of girls and to achieve more assertive personalities. It has also been endorsed to improve the academic performance of boys.

-Established to increase the performance and confidence of girls and to encourage them to follow math and science courses.

-A study of identity formation in a cohort of upper-middle class adolescent females in an elite single-sex high school in the U.S. found that this school “supported a tamed and depoliticized feminism”: the students did want to see greater equality for men and women in the public and private domain, but most girls indicated they would prefer to stay home to raise their children, given the economic resources to do so (Proweller, 1998). Also in the U.S., a three-year study of 12 single-sex schools created in California in the late 90s interviewed teachers, administrators, parents, and students and observed academic and elective classes. Some schools were found to promote gender equity in the treatment of students while others displayed gender stereotyped practices (Datnow et al, 2001). Accounting for the differential performance of these schools, the researchers noted that they had not been created on the basis of informed gender knowledge but rather as a form of school choice to increase the diversity of the public school offerings. Their conclusion was that gender equity must be supported by well-informed practice by teachers and administrators.