Commonwealth Education Organization

- Gender Education/Single Sex Classes - Much research and other information on this issue can be found at the site: National Association for Single Sex Public Education From our newsletter, Education Advocate Vol. 7, No. 6 Article: Gender Update (pp. 2&3) “Paradoxically, by educating them [boys and girls] separately, we are able to do much to reverse the gender gaps that typically leave girls behind in math and boys behind in literacy.” Tom Carroll, Brighter Choice Charter School

July 19, 2010 MANY QUESTION VALUE OF SINGLE-GENDER SCHOOLS “Separating boys and girls is a long-established practice in private schools. In public schools, it is a still-controversial notion that has gotten a foothold in districts across the country in the last decade.” >>read more>>

November 29,2009 SINGLE-SEX MIDDLE SCHOOL AIMS TO DIVIDE AND CONQUER "The federal No Child Left Behind Act in 2002 affirmed the legality of single-sex instruction,said Leonard Sax of the National Assn. for Single Sex Public Education. Since then, the number of public schools nationwide with single-sex classrooms has shot up from 11 to 540." >>read more>>

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