These are a few of the sources that I am using in my Probe paper on Single-Sex Education!



Gerson, Lisa A. "Single-Sex Education." Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law (2005): 547-60. Print.

Lee, Valerie E., and Anthony S. Bryk. "Effects of Single-Sex Secondary Schools on Student Achievement and Attitudes." Journal of Education Psychology 78.5 (1986): 381-95. Print.

Lewin, Tamar. "Single-Sex Education Is Assailed in Report." The New York Times 22 Sept. 2011: A19. Print.

Caplice, Kristin S. "The Case for Public Single-Sex Education." Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy (1994-1995): 227. Print.

Matthiessen, Connie. "Girls' and Boys' Brains: How Different Are They?" Great Schools. GreatSchools Inc. Web. 27 Mar. 2012. .

Sadker, David, Myra Sadker, and Karen Zittleman. Still failing at Fairness: How Gender Bias Cheats Girls and Boys in School and What We Can Do about It. New York: Scribner, 2009. Print.

I completely agree with what Lindsey had to say. I do not by any means agree with students paying someone to write their papers. I had no idea students do this and I find it awful. I agree with Lindsey that doctors and other professions do not necessarily need to write. They often don't need to and the ones that want to, will. I do believe during schooling, students should know how to write. It is a common life skill that everyone should have a basis knowledge of. I was shocked by the end of the article when Ed Dante states, "The 75-page paper on business ethics ultimately expanded into a 160-page graduate thesis, every word of which was written by me." That is just completely not right. Students should work for their graduation and their grade. If they need to write a paper to graduate, they should have the writing skills able to write this thesis paper. I agree with Lindsey about cheating among students. Students are increasingly becoming lazier and lazier. Therefore, its not a matter of fact of if they can write, its that they don't want to write. This a very interesting and shocking article. I enjoyed reading it.

This article brings up an intriguing debate. At the end of the article, the author states, "You do need specialised provision, but co-location is definitely the best way to do it." I agree with this statement completely. I agree that these individuals can not be completely excluded from other students of their same age. I think that students with disabilities need to learn at a young age how to interact with students without disabilities. They need to learn the differences throughout our diverse society. I agree that they do need to be together in order to better our society and help them build character.

This article was very interesting and actually sort of surprised me. I didn't expect Finland to have to best education system. However, I can see why. Many of their education system features are very understandable and true. They make a lot of sense and I strongly believe that the United States should take these ideas and add them to our system today. The biggest feature to me was the few financial features. I believe that is a huge downfall to the United States education systems. Everyone needs to have the chance at school no matter if they are wealthy or poor, they all deserve it. This would dramatically help equality in the US. I wish that the United States education systems would look at these other countries and take into account why they have amazing education systems and programs.

"In the 1960s and 1970s, noted The Times, the boundaries of school attendance zones had sometimes been redrawn "to promote racial integration," but the schools where this had taken place, the paper said, had "lost their distinct neighborhood character" and many "produced lackluster academic results"- which, if this seemingly direct connection was correct, appeared to indicate that school desegregation had not been in the best interests of the children of New York." - This is a quote from Shame of the Nation by Jonathan Kozol. Our group feels that this article successfully links this book to our education systems today. This article is about a Pennsylvania high school experimenting with segregation and the outcomes of it. Shame of the Nation focuses on the ongoing segregation in our school systems.

I really thought this article was powerful in the face that many people would not believe in this. I thought it was interesting when they stated that they believe "that shows grouping black students by gender with a strong role model can help boost their academic achievement and self esteem." I agree with Cassandra in the fact that they are not focusing on what is really important. I personally do not agree with this article or this idea.