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Public Single-Sex Schools: What Oprah Knew by Rosemary C. Salomone - November 04, 2015The U.S. Department of Education recently dismissed a complaint filed 20 years ago by civil liberties groups against the Young Women's Leadership School in East Harlem. This commentary recalls the school's first graduation where Oprah Winfrey as the commencement speaker affirmed the merits of this school and implicitly similar all-girls' schools for disadvantaged students.To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Rosemary Salomone
St. John's University E-mail Author ROSEMARY SALOMONE is the Kenneth Wang Professor of Law at St. John's University School of Law. She is the author of Same, Different, Equal: Rethinking Single-Sex Schooling (Yale University Press) as well as True American: Language, Identity, and the Education of Immigrant Children (Harvard University Press) and Visions of Schooling: Conscience, Community, and Common Education (Yale University Press).
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