All Girls: Single-Sex Education and Why It Matters

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Single-Sex Education and Why It Matters
A friend with a daughter older than my own was trying to make an impossible decision. Should she send the girl to a coed school for seventh grade, or to an all-girls school? She had no idea what a girls' school was like; she and everyone she knew had gone

Chapter 1: Single-Sex Education, Part 2
The parents had set out a breakfast buffet on long tables at either side of the school entrance, but the girls were too excited to eat. They hung on each other like drunks, laughing and shrieking, halfheartedly pledging to stop making so much noise.

Investigative journalist Karen Stabiner spent pivotal years with the young women of two very different girls' schools: Marlborough, an elite prep school in Los Angeles, and The Young Women's Leadership School in East Harlem, an experimental public school. On both coasts, her subjects are fascinating young women on the brink of adulthood, whose choices will affect their lives. Even-handed and thought-provoking, All Girls could change the way we educate all children in the future.

Karen Stabiner is one of the most respected journalists writing today about health, women's and family issues. She is a frequent contributor on these topics to such major publications as Vogue, O, Redbook, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Magazine, The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times. She has also written about food for Travel & Leisure, Gourmet and Saveur.

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