A review by amyg42
All Girls: Single-Sex Education and Why It Matters by Karen Stabiner

2.0

This is a medium-old book, based on the school year of 1998/8, and published in 2002. The author follows students from two all-girl schools, a rich school in LA and a public school in poor NYC, and ultimately decides to send her daughter to the LA school. The author uses a lot of pages to tell the students' and teachers' stories, but it's not a scientific book at all: there aren't a lot of numbers to give any reference to how good or poorly the students are doing. She's missing a lot of information here as she doesn't compare how students do in similar co-ed school and she doesn't look at other country's educations systems.

The obvious bias of the author makes this one only worth a read if you are directly interested in how girls and teachers feel about single-sex education.


[I am rereading my old books and reviewing them as an adult.]