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In this timely book, Rosemary Salomone offers a reasoned educational and legal argument supporting single-sex education as an alternative to coeducation, particularly in the case of disadvantaged minority students. "A carefully organized, often lively . . . compendium of everything that matters in the debate: how boys and girls do in classes and on tests, their differing learning styles, and the legal tussles."-Timothy A. Hacsi, New York Times "Smart, objective, evenhanded. Must reading in this important debate."-Susan Estrich, University of Southern California Law School "Everyone concerned about inequalities in our schools and our society should want to read it."-Michael Duffy, Times Educational Supplement (U.K.) "If you have time for only one book and you really want to be informed about single-sex education, then make it Same, Different, Equal."-John Borst, Education Today "The single best book I have read about single-sex education. A must-read for every educator who is concerned about the different outcomes for boys and girls in school."-Michael Thompson, Ph.D, coauthor of Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys