Learning like a girl : educating our daughters in schools of their own / Diana Meehan.
Meehan, Diana M., 1943-
2007
LB3067.4 .M434 2007 (Mapit)
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Title Learning like a girl : educating our daughters in schools of their own / Diana Meehan.
Author Meehan, Diana M., 1943-
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9781586484101
1586484109
Imprint New York : PublicAffairs, c2007.
Language English
Description xxiii, 324 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number LB3067.4 .M434 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 371.8220973
Summary An educator's account of why and how she founded an innovative girls' school. Faced with a spirited 11-year-old daughter, a concern about what therapists have called a "poisonous" youth culture, and a conviction that parents need powerful tools to help their daughters realize their potential, educator-activist Diana Meehan was disappointed in the schools available. So she decided along with two other mothers to create one, based on social science and brain research on how girls learn best. The result, The Archer School in Los Angeles, has in just ten years become a model for girls' schools nationwide. Meehan describes her obstacle-ridden journey to create a new institution to serve girls first and foremost, while laying out what girls need to thrive. She also visits other schools, private and public, to show how single-sex education works, and how every girl can benefit.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-313) and index.
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1. The girl pause
2. The Odyssey
3. In their footsteps
4. Bad fairy at the christening
5. Headstrong puppets
6. At the board meeting
7. Shortbread cookies
8. The wholeness of it
9. Elite and connected
10. Bump, set, spike
11. One star, two heads
12. Slings and arrows
13. Into the breach
14. This shining adventure
15. Nefarious activities
16. Comedy saves
17. The moon in a silver bag
18. The abyss
19. To seek my fortune
20. Signs of the times
21. Science, math, and joy
22. Where the boys are
Afterword
Appendices
Appendix A. School in a (down-filled) box
Appendix B. Mothers of invention
Appendix C. Every which way but here
Appendix D. Who was who.

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