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- Title
GENDER-SEPARATE EDUCATION: THE EFFECTS ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT & SELF-ESTEEM ON ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED PUBLIC MIDDLE SCHOOL.
- Authors
O'Neill, Heather M.; Guerin, Allison
- Abstract
In 2003, three Philadelphia middle schools with similar demographics and failing student achievement levels were taken over by an educational management organization. Two were transformed into distinct single-sex academies within the original school buildings and a third remained coeducational. Students did not have the option where to attend, eliminating selection bias. Through funding from a Spencer Foundation grant, data was collected on 1,000 students for 2002-03 through 2004-05 to examine impacts of gender-segregation. We find students in single-sex schools witness greater improvements in standardized test scores, with boys gaining the most, and no differences on Rosenberg's Self-Esteem Scale.
- Subjects
PHILADELPHIA (Pa.); PENNSYLVANIA; MIDDLE schools; ACADEMIC achievement; SINGLE sex schools; EDUCATION
- Publication
Pennsylvania Economic Review, 2010, Vol 17, Issue 1/2, p1
- ISSN
1531-0949
- Publication type
Article