Education: The pseudoscience of single-sex schooling

Science

Volumn 333, Issue 6050, 2011, Pages 1706-1707

  Halpern, Diane F ^a   Eliot, Lise ^b   Bigler, Rebecca S ^c   Fabes, Richard A ^d   Hanish, Laura D ^d   Hyde, Janet ^e   Liben, Lynn S ^f   Martin, Carol Lynn ^d  

^a CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE   (United States)

^b ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^f PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; GENDER DISPARITY; PRIMARY EDUCATION; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; STUDENT;

BRAIN FUNCTION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENCE; SEXISM; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 80053141846     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1205031     Document Type: Short Survey

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