What do we know about the effects of single-sex schools in the private sector?: Implications for public schools

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 10-30

  Riordan, Cornelius ^a  

^a PROVIDENCE COLLEGE   (United States)

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