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The brain research also is reigniting interest in single-gender education. ... There were three public schools nationwide offering single-gender instruction in 1995 and 262 today, still a small fraction of the country's more than 90,000 public schools, according to Leonard Sax, executive director of the National...
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Sax founded the National Association for Single Sex Public Education and wrote a book, Why Gender Matters, published last year and now a bestseller. The subject has been fiercely debated in the US, and other books on the issue have also sold widely: girls' and boys' brains are wired differently;
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Whatever the arguments, many parents will continue to demand single-sex education for their children and Smithers says it should be provided. While his study shows no overall advantages to the schools, it also shows no disadvantages. ... Gender pay gap 'as glaring as ever among teenagers'
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Much of the research on single-sex classes has been discussed in Pamela Haag’s literature review (in "Single Sex Education: What Does the Research Tell Us?" from Separated by Sex: A Critical Look at Single-Sex Education for Girls, the 1998 report from ... M. D. Evans, "A Single Gender Learning Strategy," Principal 73, no.
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But although the first all-female academies, founded in the early 1800s, reflected a commitment to traditional gender roles, ... Still, single-sex education was not exactly a choice; it was a cultural mandate at a time when sexual segregation was considered only natural. Early feminists hoped eventually to integrate men...
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The advantages and disadvantages of both types of schooling for girls and boys continue to arouse considerable controversy in Australia and other countries. Is single-sex education more educationally effective than a coeducational setting? ... The Difficulty in Researching Single Gender Schooling...
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see also infra note 171. Gardenswartz, supra note 20, at 611 (assessing the impact of Hogan on single-gender education: "[t]he more central question is now whether separation on the basis of sex perpetuates common stereotypes about men and women").
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Girls at single-gender schools plan careers in math, science and technology four times more often than their peers from other schools. ... For boys, the advantages of a single-sex education fall into three categories, according to the National Association for the Advancement of Single Sex Public Education (NAASSPE):
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Moreover, critics claimed, any minor advantages in gender equity that a single-sex education provides are negated by the disadvantages of a lack of fraternization and socialization with the opposite sex.
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