Concludes that single-sex schools should be viewed as experimental alternatives to mainstream coeducational schools and should be made available to students and parents. Charles Scribner's Sons, MacMillan Publishing Company, 1994. Explores gender bias in coeducational classrooms and effects on girls' aspirations and self-esteem. Trickett, Edison J. and others. Finds normative environments of single-sex independent schools more academic, with greater task and competition orientation, than coeducational independent schools.
Compares representative independent schools to each other and to public schools.
Discusses learning involvement, function, purpose, and student and faculty selection differences.