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Direct linkMeyer, Peter – Education Next, 2008
While there are no reliable counts of single-gender schools in the first half of the 20th century, best estimates are that most were schools for white boys. Many of the girls' schools that did exist early on served as "finishing" schools rather than preparation for college. In the 1960s and 1970s, the civil rights and feminist movements…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Teaching Methods, Single Sex Schools, Civil Rights
