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These social studies text sets attempt to represent not just a topic, but an issue within that topic,
and sides of that issue. The text sets present multiple perspectives on a social studies issue—as
well as multiple levels of texts and multiple modalities. The texts are arranged more or less from
easier to harder. Some articles may need to be adapted for lower level readers, and some website
text you may choose to move into Word and reformat so it is easier to read and has fewer
distractors/ads. Be sure to capture the whole URL, without spaces for line-breaks, when you seek
these online resources. Thanks to all the teachers who shared resources. If you have a
bibliography you‘d like to share with social studies teachers, please email us at:
contact@readingandwritingproject.com.
Please keep in mind that websites are temporal and so might no longer be posted.
Single Gender Education
Web Articles
For Single-Sex
“Single Sex Classes Popular As More Public Schools Split Up Boys and Girls”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/08/more-public-schoolssplit_0_n_1657505.html
“Single-Sex Schools OK”
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/letters/view/20120803singlesex_schools_ok/
“Single-Sex Schools Help Children Thrive”
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0920/p09s01-coop.html
“Single Sex Education Advantages”
http://privateschool.about.com/cs/choosingaschool/a/singlesex.htm
“Statistics Show Benefits of Single-Sex Education”
http://www.ncregister.com/site/print_article/11170/
Against Single-Sex
“Single-Sex Education is Ineffective”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/education/23single.html
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“Girls Schools: Biggest Bullies Breeding Ground” (The New Yorker)
http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6049286
“Teach Kids not Sterotypes”
http://www.aclu.org/blog/womens-rights/teach-kids-not-stereotypes
“Single-Sex Education is Assailed in Report”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/education/23single.html
“Single-Sex Schools Have Negative Impact on Kids, Says Study”
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/single-sex-schools-negative-kidsstudy/story?id=14581023#.UCMIjhzbSDs
“Gender Segregation Fails Kids”
http://bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view/20220728gender_segregatio
n_fails_kids
“The Case Against Single-Sex Classrooms” (The New Yorker)
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/07/single-sexeducation.html
Neutral
“Segregating the Sexes”
http://artofmanliness.com/2008/03/04/segregating-the-sexes/
“Single-Sex Education: The Pros and Cons”
http://www.greatschools.org/find-a-school/defining-your-ideal/1139-single-sexeducation-the-pros-and-cons.gs?page=all
“Teaching Boys and Girls Separately”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/magazine/02sex3t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&emc=eta1
“Single-Sex Education: the pros and cons”
http://www.greatschools.org/find-a-school/defining-your-ideal/1139-single-sexeducation-the-pros-and-cons.gs?page=all
“Blue is for Boys, Red Hearts is for Girls”
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2012/07/09/single_sex_classrooms_idaho_
school_doubles_down_on_gender_stereotypes.html
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“Single Sex Classes Popular As More Public Schools Split Up Boys and Girls”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/08/more-public-schoolssplit_0_n_1657505.html
“The Rumble in the Jungle: Single Sex Vs. Co-Ed School”
http://www.childhealthresearch.org.au/media/394155/the_rumble_in_the_jungle._
single-sex_vs_coed_schooling.pdf
Videos
“Single Sex Education”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94SDznZ1b_M
“Single Sex Education on the Rise”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irwjHMOZgpc
“Should Public Schools Offer Single-Sex Classrooms?
http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/1729386243001/should-public-schools-offersingle-sex-classrooms/
“Mixed Gender or Same Sex Classrooms”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTLnaXlIK4A
“Single Gender Classrooms-Part 1”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIAYE_VG11Q
“Single Gender Classrooms-Part 2”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gperomezGz4