Voices of hope
Subtitle: adolescent girls at single sex and coeducational schools
By: Carole B. Shmurak.
Series: Adolescent cultures, school & society,; v. 4
Publisher: P. Lang; Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Girls' schools -- United States -- Longitudinal studies.; Coeducation -- United States -- Longitudinal studies.; Girls -- Education (Secondary) -- United States -- Longidutinal studies.; Teenage girls -- United States -- Attitudes -- Longitudinal studies.; High school students -- United States -- Attitudes -- Longitudinal studies.
Genres: Longitudinal studies.; Longidutinal studies.
Description: "Fueled by media reports of gender bias in the schools, the debate over single sex education has been recently renewed. Voices of Hope asks for a reconsideration of the framing of that debate. For whom is single sex education better? For the attainment of which goals? What do girls gain by being schooled with male peers? What is lost?" "In this longitudinal study of more than fifty high school girls at four New England independent schools, Carole B. Shmurak follows their development from ninth grade through the first year of college. Case studies capture the girls' own voices as they describe their hopes for their futures and the events that subsequently affect those futures."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-208) and indexes.