Examines the current knowledge base and provides specific recommendations for educators and parents on ways to construct engaging learning environments for all young adolescent girls that promote research-based, high quality, & gender-equitable schooling

"Educating Young Adolescent Girls is a useful resource for educators, sociologists, women's studies majors, and others. It addresses a critical age of female development, the early teens, when the actions of effective teachers, parents, and other committed adults can promote the successful development of girls....Color and gender and other individual differences are real....Readers will find practical suggestions and supportive research to respond to these...differences, and to help girls overcome the very real barriers that still restrict. They will find....suggestions and resources for positive change."
—David M. Sadker
American University and Phyllis Lerner, Interweave