Gender in Policy and Practice

This book exposes the complexity of single-sex schooling and sheds new light on how gender operates in policy and practice in education. The essays collected in this volume cover a wide range of institutions including K-12 and higher education public and private schools and schools in the US and beyond. Detailing the educational experiences of both young men and women this collection examines how schooling shapes-and is shaped by- the social construction of gender in history and in contemporary society.