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The Impact Of Single-Sex Education On Male And Female Gains In Mathematics And Reading At The Elementary Level In A Selected School In North Carolina, Lisa O'Neill
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The gender gap in achievement and the increasing awareness of differences between male and female cognitive development have ignited a growing interest in single-sex education. No Child Left Behind legislation and amendments to Title IX legislation have increased the number of schools in America offering single-sex education.
This 2-year quasi-experimental explanatory mixed methods study explores the impact of single-sex education on an economically disadvantaged school's fifth-grade students' academic gains in mathematics and reading achievement in comparison to their peers in demographically similar coeducational classrooms in the same school.
Quantitative data were collected from standardized state test scores in reading and …