All Girls: Single-Sex Education and Why it Matters
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (604 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1573229946 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Those seeking practical tips, however, won't find them here.Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Painting a vivid picture of the students' lives, the book seems at times more like a novel than nonfiction, with a cast of over 22 characters. She spent a year observing students at Marlborough, an elite Los Angeles prep school, and at The Young Women's Leadership School (TYWLS), a public school in East Harlem. Her fly-on-the-wall method is effective, and parents wondering what an all-girls school is really like will learn much from her observations. Alternating chapters between the schools, Stabiner traces the aspirations and accompli
Investigative journalist Karen Stabiner spent pivotal years with the young women of two very different girls' schools: Marlborough, an elite prep school in Los Angeles, and The Young Women's Leadership School in East Harlem, an experimental public school. Even-handed and thought-provoking, All Girls could change the way we educate all children in the future.. On both coasts, her subjects are fascinating young women on the brink of adulthood, whose choices will affect their lives
Looking for statistics? Look somewhere else! Laura O. Gonzales Anyone looking for statistics on how single-sex education helps girls should look elsewhere. This book, however, does provide a very accurate representation on what it is like for the parents, teachers, and students of all-girls schools. From the illustrous Marlborough in Los Angeles to the struggling Young Women's Leadership School in Harlem, readers get an idea of what it is like to be a hardworking young woman on either side of the poverty line. As a graduate of single sex education myself, I can relate to these stori. Help for parents of seniors in high school THIS BOOK IS A MUST READ FOR ANYONE GOING THROUGH THE COLLEGE PROCESS. I am a parent of a senior in high school and I have never gone through the college admissions process as a parent. There are so many tales from the classes before that trickle down through the years, that the process seems daunting before it even begins. Reading Karen's book made me think all along the way that what I was feeling was NORMAL. It was totally comforting to know that I was not the only one feeling anxious about not knowing which school my. Carolyn Kost said More relevant to a discussion of economic inequality than to single sex education. Stabiner switches back and forth between the first Young Women's Leadership School, a public charter school for young women of color and promise founded in Harlem in 1996, and the century-old Marlborough School in Los Angeles. The contrast is jarring: the teachers in the former are disaffected and transitory, the students challenged by life circumstances that pull at them to remain in the mire, while the teachers in the latter are creative and largely stable and the students are sophisticated and coddled.Relying on warm