Fueled by media reports of gender bias in the schools, the debate over single sex education has been recently renewed. Voices of Hope asks for a reconsideration of the framing of that debate. For whom is single sex education better? For the attainment of which goals? What do girls gain by being schooled with male peers? What is lost? In this longitudinal study of more than fifty high school girls at four New England independent schools, Carole B. Shmurak follows their development from ninth grade through the first year of college. Case studies capture the girls' own voices as they describe their hopes for their futures and the events that subsequently affect those futures.

Voices of Hope: Adolescent Girls at Single Sex and Coeducational Schools (Adolescent Cultures, School, and Society)

Politics & Social Sciences

Carole B. Shmurak

Women's Studies

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

<p>The good news: You've got tenure. The bad news: You're dead. Faculty squabbling at a large state university turns deadly when professor of education Susan Lombardi joins a committee to make a tenure decision about Abby Gillette, a controversial faculty member. After one colleague is hospitalized following a suspicious fire and another is found dead in Abby's office, Susan must try to figure out who is doing what to whom...without becoming the next victim. At the same time, she must deal with her husband's highly dysfunctional family and help a friend handle a questionable romance. The second volume in the Susan Lombardi series, this charming, witty mystery is in a class by itself.</p>

Death by Committee

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Pemberton Mysteries, SterlingHouse Publisher

<p>A simple mystery of the High School Prankster turns deadly. Susan Lombardi is back. This time she has two mysteries to solve: Who is playing the cruel pranks on the new teacher - a twisted student or a jealous colleague? And what has become of the teacher whose wife's body was found in their cellar? Shmurak knows what mystery writing is all about and she proves it once again.</p>

Death at Hilliard High (A Susan Lombardi Mystery)

SterlingHouse Publisher, Pemberton Mysteries

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