Document Type
Review Article
Publication Date
1-1-2004
Journal / Book Title
American educational research journal
Abstract
This ethnographic study documents how accountability measures skewed the implementation of gender equity reform at one California public middle school serving low-income students of color. In creating single-sex classes throughout the school, the Single Sex Academy (SSA) became the largest public experiment with single-sex schooling in the country, but pressure to raise its standardized test scores diverted the school away from the exploration and implementation of the gender reform. The chronicle of SSA is particularly relevant in light of (a) a recent call to relax Title IX standards and increase the numbers of public single-sex classes and schools, and (b) the provision of monies mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 for single-sex classes and schools, along with the act's imposition of accountability standards and testing.
DOI
10.3102/00028312041003527
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Herr, Kathryn and Arms, Emily, "Accountability and Single-Sex Schooling: A Collision of Reform Agendas" (2004). Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works. 23.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/educ-fdns-facpubs/23
Published Citation
Herr, K., & Arms, E. (2004). Accountability and single-sex schooling: A collision of reform agendas. American educational research journal, 41(3), 527-555.