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Informationen zum Autor Frances Spielhagen, a career educator with over 30 years experience in secondary schools, is currently an assistant professor of education at Mount Saint Mary College, in Newburgh, New York. Dr. Spielhagen has also engaged in funded and published educational research, most recently as an AERA/IES post-doctoral research fellow at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Klappentext Debating Single-Sex Education provides both practitioners and policymakers with a timely, detailed, and focused compilation of the issues surrounding single-sex education. It includes qualitative case studies and quantitative evidence of the effects of single-sex education on student achievement. Zusammenfassung Debating Single-Sex Education provides both practitioners and policymakers with a timely! detailed! and focused compilation of the issues surrounding single-sex education. It includes qualitative case studies and quantitative evidence of the effects of single-sex education on student achievement. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Single-Sex Classes: Everything That's Old is New Again Chapter 2 Jumping Into the Fray: How to Implement Single-Sex Classes Chapter 3 Bumps Along the Way: Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned Chapter 4 Having it Our Way: Students Speak Out on Single-Sex Classes Chapter 5 Going the Distance: Strategies for Teacher Preparation Chapter 6 Does It Add Up? Single-Sex Classes and Student Achievement Chapter 7 Good New and Bad News: Student Behavior in Single-Sex Classes Chapter 8 For Better or Worse: Classroom Dynamics in Single-Sex Science Classes Chapter 9 We've Always Done it This Way: Single-Sex Classes in Kenya Chapter 10 Now what? Practical implications