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ERIC Number: EJ375739
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1988
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Gender in American Public Schools: Thinking Institutionally.
Hansot, Elizabeth; Tyack, David
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, v13 n4 p741-60 Sum 1988
Examines the institutional history of public schools in the United States in the context of gender, and investigates gender practices and policies in the context of formal education. There was far less gender segregation in classrooms under the control of teachers than in informal groups of children outside adult supervision. (BJV)
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Family School Relationship, Institutional Characteristics, Institutional Evaluation, Public Education, Public Schools, Rural Urban Differences, Sex Differences, United States History
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Historical Materials; Information Analyses
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Language: English
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