A report by the Ford Foundation lambasted a Californian experiment in single-sex schooling for problem students in 1998 for sustaining certain "gendered perceptions" and for lacking a "gender equity-driven agenda"—wording which says more about the authors' education than that of the pupils concerned.With enemies such as these, single-sex schooling is hard not to love.
Further exploration of this observation reveals that the participants in the forum are mainly parents of primary students while the blog authors are some authorized education experts or the ones who tend to express their opinions in education.
The structure lets students sit together, gives them a to-do list and provides individual time with their teacher, said Vicki Gibson, an author on education programs who co-wrote "Differentiated Instruction: Grouping for Success". In turn, the method eliminates behavioral problems and allows students to absorb their lessons, Gibson said.
Those roots were reinforced by more recent history, notes Michael Seth, author of "Education Fever".
Update: The Ear, Nose and Throat Institute is a sponsor of the author's education company, the Oxford Center for Entrepreneurs.
Anthony T. Kronman, a professor of law at Yale and the author of "Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life," goes further.
Dr. Kozol, who lived in Boston, died Wednesday at Massachusetts General Hospital of complications from heart failure, said his son, the author and education activist Jonathan Kozol.
Dr. Bok is a prolific author on education issues and works on the Harvard faculty, but he has not been actively involved in university affairs for 15 years.
In the original Italian text, both Issa and Sofia sometimes quote French sayings — probably a reflection of the author's education in French-speaking Algeria.
