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A Gendered Choice
Designing and Implementing Single-Sex Programs and Schools
Edited by:
Foreword by Jim Rex
December 2009 | 200 pages | Corwin
Across the U.S. about 500 public schools currently offer single-gender classes or programmes. Hundreds more schools are contemplating separate classes for boys and girls in the wake of the 2006 legislation that allows such programmes to satisfy Title IX requirements.
Spearheading the national trend in this direction with over 300 single-gender programmes is South Carolina, where David W. Chadwell was appointed the first state coordinator for single-gender initiatives. In this book, Chadwell lays out for administrators the step-by-step process of implementing single-sex programmes and schools in three stages: designing, initiating, and sustaining.
A Gendered Choice is a practical, how-to book based upon unique, first-hand experience that interested administrators will want to examine as they contemplate or begin to introduce single-gender programmes in their schools.
List of Tables
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction: Defining Single-Gender Education
Part I. Considering Single-Gender Education
1. Gender Makes a Difference in the Classroom
2. What We Know About Single-Gender Programs
3. Political Opposition to Single-Gender Education
4. Frequently Asked Questions: Concerns and Options
PART II. Designing A Single Gender Program
5. Rationale and Structure
6. Legal Issues and Logistics
7. Communication
8. Building Community
9. Program Price
PART III. IMPLEMENTING A SINGLE-GENDER PROGRAM
10. Professional Development
11. Program Evaluation
12. Sustaining a Single-Gender Program
REPRODUCIBLE RESOURCES
References
Index