Federal Rules Back Single-Sex Education in Public Schools

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 24— The Bush administration is giving public school districts broad new latitude to expand the number of single-sex classes, and even schools, in what is widely considered the most significant policy change on the issue since a landmark federal law barring sex discrimination in education more than 30 years ago.

Two years in the making, the new rules, announced Tuesday by the Education Department, will allow districts to create single-sex schools and classes as long as enrollment is voluntary. School districts that go that route must also make coeducational schools and classes of “substantially equal” quality available for members of the excluded sex.

The federal action is likely to accelerate efforts by public school systems to experiment with single-sex education, particularly among charter schools. Across the nation, the number of public schools exclusively for boys or girls has risen from 3 in 1995 to 241 today, said Leonard Sax, executive director of the National Association for Single Sex Public Education. That is a tiny fraction of the approximately 93,000 public schools across the country.

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NYTimes story

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What's wrong with single-gender schools?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

What's wrong with single-gender schools?

The two best (I should say, the four best) schools with the highest grades and GSCE pass rate in my town, were single sex grammar schools.

I don't have a problem with it - I do wonder to whether single sex schools are better simply because they are single-sex.

There are of course general trends that suggest girls do better academically than boys.

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What's wrong with single-gender schools?

Are there any real benefits for the students to be isolated based on gender?

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What's wrong with single-gender schools?

Are there any real benefits for the students to be isolated based on gender?

Apparently girls do better in literacy and boys in math, but when they isolate them by gender it evens out.

Not much good practice for the real world, though, where they will soon discover most men have no problem ignoring women's ideas and talking right over them in a conversation.

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I went to a single gender school for most of my school years. No complaints, I got a good education. But then it isn't like the years of school or university where I was in a co-ed environment weren't productive.. they were.

Based on my personal experience, I don't see the harm or the benefit of single-sex schools.

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What's wrong with single-gender schools?

leads to homosexuality....heard it on Russia tv

I went to a single gender school for most of my school years. No complaints, I got a good education. But then it isn't like the years of school or university where I was in a co-ed environment weren't productive.. they were.

Based on my personal experience, I don't see the harm or the benefit of single-sex schools.

gay??? any latent tendencies, you care to disucss...

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

What's wrong with single-gender schools?

leads to homosexuality....heard it on Russia tv

I went to a single gender school for most of my school years. No complaints, I got a good education. But then it isn't like the years of school or university where I was in a co-ed environment weren't productive.. they were.

Based on my personal experience, I don't see the harm or the benefit of single-sex schools.

gay??? any latent tendencies, you care to disucss...

well if putin tv says so it must be true

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Actually there is a benefit from single-sex-schools, at least in Germany there is. Studies show back home that girls from single sex high schools do way better in nature science and maths than girls in mixed schools. Researches think it might be because in mixed school kids are more aware of those prejudices that girls are good in languages and boys are good in nature science, which is untrue when you seperate them. Also I think it is good to be sperated: less dating, more focusing on school!!!

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Also I think it is good to be sperated: less dating, more focusing on school!!!

Less dating, more same-sex coming-of-age exploration? I thought this was the plot of every French indie film?

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Less dating, more same-sex coming-of-age exploration? I thought this was the plot of every French indie film?

I thought that was 2 men, in love with the same woman, eventually engage in a threesome that destroys them all........or bored bourgeois attractive french woman engages on risky voyage of sexual explorations that will ultimately destroy her

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Less dating, more same-sex coming-of-age exploration? I thought this was the plot of every French indie film?

I thought that was 2 men, in love with the same woman, eventually engage in a threesome that destroys them all........or bored bourgeois attractive french woman engages on risky voyage of sexual explorations that will ultimately destroy her

Or older (embittered) woman seduces young sensitive buck. That has been popular lately.

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Less dating, more same-sex coming-of-age exploration? I thought this was the plot of every French indie film?

I thought that was 2 men, in love with the same woman, eventually engage in a threesome that destroys them all........or bored bourgeois attractive french woman engages on risky voyage of sexual explorations that will ultimately destroy her

Or older (embittered) woman seduces young sensitive buck. That has been popular lately.

never as popular as older guy has 3some with cheerleader twins.

Edited October 25, 2006 by charlesandnessa

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Condi's gay?

saw it on russian television...must be more accurate than the bias usa media...right?

leads to homosexuality....heard it on Russia tv

LOL - Russian TV is obsessed with homosexuality.

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I went to an all-girls high school and I think there are some advantages to single-sex education -- there IS less dating and more focusing on school work and girls would come to school and they wouldn't be obsessed with how they look. Everyone looked nice and had to follow certain uniform guidelines, but the feeling was "we can relax and pay attention; there's no one here to impress anyway." I later went to a co-ed university and I had no problems interacting with the menfolk.