Product Description Educators agree that boys and girls learn differently, but do they learn better in single-sex classes? Single-sex education has become a "hot topic" among educators striving to address achievement declines, especially in the middle school years. Since the United States Department of Education confirmed the legality of single-sex classes in public schools in 2006, the number of single-sex classes and schools has increased dramatically and the options continue to grow in popularity. Debating Single-Sex Education offers a timely and detailed summary of the issues surrounding single-sex education. Eight veteran educators provide research-based findings on single-sex classes in the United States and Africa. This book presents a brief historical summary of single-sex classes in the United States. Other features include recent qualitative case studies, interviews with students, and statistical evidence of the effects of single-sex classes on student achievement. The final chapter synthesizes the common findings among these studies and the implications for practice in schools. Review Military academies, Catholic schools, and fancy prep schools have all successfully run single-sex schools: So why not public schools too? This valuable book explores fully and richly the issues, methods, and effects on kids of going to school with their own gender?and how it works. Valuable stuff!! -- Bruce S. Cooper, PhD, emeritus professor and vice chair, Division of Administration, Policy and Urban Education, Fordham UniversityHere is a book that offers a necessary and objective assessment of an approach that is gaining increased interest among parents and educators nationwide. Free of ideology, it cautiously adds to the knowledge base of what single-sex classes potentially can offer girls and boys while raising questions that need to be further explored. -- Rosemary Salomone, Kenneth Wang Professor of Law, St. John's University, author of Same, Different, Equal: Rethinking,Single-Sex SchoolingThis excellent edited volume is a must-have resource for any educator interested in single-sex classes and education. This focused, balanced book is a must-read comprehensive introduction to the nuances, complexities and successes of single-sex classes! -- Sally M. Reis Ph.D, Interim Vice Provost for Academic Administration; Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor; University Teaching Fellow, University of Connecticut About the Author 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.