Challenging the system: Assumptions and data behind the push for single-sex schooling

Gender in Policy and Practice: Perspectives on Single Sex and Coeducational Schooling

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 31-46

  Campbell, Patricia B ^a   Sanders, Jo ^b  

^a Campbell Kibler Associates   (United States)

^b Washington Research Institute   (United States)

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