Why are our schools the way they are? -- Girls and education: gender enters the educational agenda -- Boys' education: questions of fact and rhetoric -- Singe-sex solutions -- Overseas studies -- Reaching towards conclusions
Summary
Author and educator Judy Gill addresses the ongoing debate between coeducation or single sex schooling. She starts by giving a brief overview of schooling in Australia and its various school systems, and then follows with an examination of the rationale for single-sex schooling and the cases for and against