A Portrait of a School

About the Book

A Portrait of a School: Coeducation at Andover is the first comprehensive study of how gender works out on a day to day basis in an American high school. Using school records, survey research, interviews, and school archives, Kathleen M. Dalton reports for the first time on the long term effects of policy making to acheive sex equity in what was the oldest boys' boarding school in America. Is coeducation or single sex education the best way to educate adolescents? This is basic reading for anyone who seeks to understand gender and education.

About the Author

Kathleen M. Dalton is a Fellow at the Charles Warren Center fo Studies American History at Harvard University, an Instructor in the Master's of Liberal Arts Program at the Harvard University Extension School, and the Cecil F.P. Bancroft Instructor of History and Social Science at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts where she has taught since 1980. A graduate of a women's college, Mills College in Oakland, California she earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in American cultural history at the John Hopkins University. Her Book A Portrait of a School:Coeduation at Andover, was the first comprehensive study of secondary school gender issues and the long term effects of policy making to acheive sex equity in the American private school. Currently writing a book about Theodore Roosevelt for Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. she has published several articles about recent American history. She also acts as a consultant to schools contemplating the move to coeducation and to schools trying to improve their educational climates for young women and men.