Single Sex Education
Learn more about the schools that serve either girls or boys, including research on single-sex education and legal issues
School Choice & Charters
Opinion
Squishy Evidence of Single-Sex Success
This article from Beaver Dam, Wis., (love the name) is typical of what I see in news coverage: We like what we see from our single-sex experiment...no improvement in test scores, but we like what we see. What does that mean?
School Choice & Charters
Opinion
Lawsuit Against Single Sex Education
Feminists have opposed single-sex education from the beginning. Here's a taste of their legal arguments surrounding the ongoing lawsuit in Louisiana.
School Choice & Charters
Opinion
Lessons from Single-Sex Classrooms
Given that the U.S. Department of Education has nothing to offer schools on how to design successful single-sex classrooms, these anecdotal observations are worth noting. This from the Tampa Tribune.
School Choice & Charters
Single-Sex Schooling Gets New Showcase
South Carolina is turning to single-sex classrooms to boost school choice and achievement, but critics question the effort's pace and wisdom.
Federal
Science Camp: Just for the Girls
Academic camps are on the rise across the country, including ones to get adolescent girls excited about the exploration of science.
School Choice & Charters
Separating Girls and Boys
A debate on the benefits of single-sex education.
Reading & Literacy
Democratic Congress to Step Up Department Oversight
The two veteran Democrats preparing to chair the congressional education committees say Republican lawmakers have largely looked the other way while the GOP administration has employed questionable practices for distributing federal grants, done little to gauge the effectiveness of tutors hired with federal dollars, and let states slide on some of the teacher-quality requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
Putting Single-Sex Schooling Back on Course
Law professor Rosemary Salomone writes that the time is now for educators to put single-sex schooling back on track and to rescue it from "the extreme rhetoric on both sides of a perplexing ideological divide."
Law & Courts
New U.S. Rules Boost Single-Sex Schooling
The U.S. Department of Education has issued final regulations that definitively state it’s legal to educate boys and girls separately under certain conditions. Though the Bush administration had signaled two years ago it planned to change federal rules to allow broader use of single-sex education in public schools, many schools were reluctant to take the plunge until the legal ambiguities were settled.
Federal
Single-Sex Classes, Programs Authorized Under Final Education Dept. Regulation
Public schools will now be able to educate boys and girls separately, if they choose, without fear of violating federal laws and regulations prohibiting sex discrimination.
School Choice & Charters
Split Decision
Public schools are finding new reasons to segregate the sexes.
Equity & Diversity
Researchers Say Girls Thrive in Single-Sex Gym Classes
High school girls exhibit higher levels of vigorous activity if they participate in single-sex, nontraditional gym classes that include aerobics, dance, and other activities tailored to meet their interests, a new study concludes.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
The Promise and Peril of Single-Sex Public Education
The growing body of research on gender differences in learning raises new considerations for single-sex education programs, writes Leonard Sax, executive director of the National Association of Single-Sex Public Education.
School & District Management
Number of Single-Sex Schools Growing
Since 1996, the Young Women’s Leadership Foundation has opened six single-sex public schools—five for girls and one for boys.