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Thu, Mar 6, 2008 -- 10:00 AM

Single Gender Education


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Single gender schools have long been common among parochial and private schools. Do these classrooms improve student performance? Forum looks at the debate over single gender education.

Host: Michael Krasny

Guests:

  • Elizabeth Weil, contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and author of last Sunday's cover article, "Teaching to the Testosterone"
  • Emily Martin, deputy director of the ACLU Women's Rights Project
  • Gordon Sharafinksi, head of the Stuart Hall High School, an all-boy school in San Francisco
  • Ilana DeBare, founding board chair of the Julia Morgan School for Girls, an all-girl middle school in Oakland and author of "Where Girls Come First: The Rise, Fall and Surprising Revival of Girls Schools"

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