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The primary goal of education' is that all children, irrespective of their gender, must succeed. We as parents and educators would certainly want our children to learn better an...read more
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Many people tout single-sex classes or schools as a major benefit for girls in math and science classes. They mention that the girls aren't intimidated in these traditionally m...read more
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by K.D.
Fewer distractions within a classroom setting will inevitably enhance opportunities for student learning and achievement. Single-sex schools are able to provide students with a ...read more
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I believe that children learn far better in single sex schools, as they are free from the distraction of the opposite sex, and boys and girls have different learning styles, whi...read more
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Do children learn better in single-sex schools? Absolutely. Besides the fact that research supports this idea, as a teacher I know the problems inherent in mixing genders in th...read more
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The facts and figures of the issue are well dealt with in other articles, so I will not labour on them here. Instead I will simply offer my personal experiences; I have attended...read more
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Children who attend same-sex schools learn academic subjects better, but there are important social skills that they may lack. I speak from personal experience. I attended all-g...read more
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by Clark Morrow
It wasn't until the late nineteenth century that boys and girls began to study in school together, and prior to that development education was at its peak. I don't think anyone...read more
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Academic performance is better whenever the environment is less distracting. Studies show better scores for girls, especially, when they are in single-sex classrooms, less dist...read more
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Concentration. Same sex schools can play havoc with it when it belongs to a hormonal child on the brink of acquiring the body and feelings of an adult. It is unfortunate that...read more
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by BP
With eight years of single sex education behind me and current enrollment in a college that is 96% female, I say that single-sex education is definitely more conducive. Right of...read more
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To someone like myself who, as a boy growing up in the United Kingdom, attended both single-sex and co-educational schools from the age of five to eighteen years, one of the mos...read more
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Year after year, studies in Australia have proven that girls perform better in all-girls schools and boys perform better in co-educational schools. There are a number of reason...read more
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by Mia Walters
I never attended an all-girl school and even the thought of attending an all girl camp sounded horrid to me growing up, but I do think they both have their benefits. The gi...read more
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In the arena of education there are several factors to be examined in order to provide the best education possible for children. One of the most controversial topics surrounding...read more
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Education is a critical process in the person's life, especially in the childhood. Where his stable concepts and thoughts will be filled within this process. Among verity of sta...read more
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by Jo Woodnutt
I am currently at a single-sex highschool, and i can definitely say that, as a whole, we concentrate more in class, compared to that of my friends and myself when i was in a mix...read more
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I applaud the efforts of some district's attempts to improve scores for students. I also think a hidden but true reason to have same sex schools is to diminish behavior problem...read more
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I am a product of a single-sex school in Brooklyn, New York area. As a young girl with racing hormones, I thought it was a horrible thing my parents were doing, but it didn't t...read more
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by Rich Browne
Boys will be boys and girls will be girls ... and should ever the twain meet fires are stoked that inevitably distract from the mission of schools; particularly after they reach...read more
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by Lisa Kooper
I do not believe that the gender of students has any bearing on the learning process. Students will learn at their own pace and level of ability regardless of what gender their...read more
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by Marie Gerber
Do children learn better in single-sex schools? If we're talking about facts and figures, I will admit, I can't give you the answer. It is true that several studies have suggest...read more
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The question I'm answering is slightly different from the one that's being asked; I know of no evidence to back up the claim that students learn language arts, science, and math...read more
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by Jimmy Ettele
Can children be taught better in single-sex schools? Do the temptations of drugs, peer pressure, making a team, and yes, sex, do they go away in a single-sex school? Well if t...read more
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by Nidhi Bhatt
I don't think that gender, in any way, influences the quality of education. Although I have to say, from experience, that children have a mature outlook towards sexuality if the...read more
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Single sex schools are a holdover from an era I would not recommend that we re-visit. In Europe 4-500 years ago the only people in town who could write their name, transact com...read more
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by Paul Burns
The major benefit of an education is the ability to get along with and understand your fellow man. For a man, your fellow man becomes more and more a woman as you age. Eventua...read more
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Learning only results whenever there is change in behavior. In a dynamic world populated by humans as well as other creatures, there are many interesting things to learn from e...read more
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by Kate Johnson
On the surface, it might be easy to say students learn better in single sex schools because instruction can be gender specific and there are fewer distractions. Clearly, boys a...read more
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Do children learn better in a single sex school? Well that depends on your definition of learning, and the values you place upon it. Certainly there is data to support the argum...read more
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by Devaki
I studied in a single sex school. I completed my 10th grade with a second class score of just 57% in final exams. I never thought I could have performed better,if only I had stu...read more
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Children learn better when the attentions are paid to education. These single sex and such issues are issues that divert away from the entire point of education. You give a chil...read more
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I can't say I'm right or wrong but I feel that being in a coed school gives a little more push to a student than being in a all girl or boy school because it is natural that the...read more
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High school, that unique learning experience all of us are submitted to-whether we like it or not. What would it be without the drama of dating, friends, cliques and all those o...read more
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Although an idea like this one may be appealing at first, it will definitely fail in the long run, especially in primary and secondary schooling. Separating the sexes, in base ...read more
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by Neil Dixon
Children who attend single sex schools do not learn any better than mixed sex school students. Separating the sexes at such a formative time in a child's life can only be detrim...read more
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While there is a valid argument that children and especially girls benefit from the single-sex classrooms, I think that school should serve as a microcosm of the real world. Yes...read more
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No, i believe they don't. Kids need to interact with one another and same sex schools provide them with that knowledge. Im not saying that we have to let them run wild with each...read more
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I graduated from an all-male high school in 2003. In august of this year (2007), I will be graduating from the University of Arizona. The difference between coed class roo...read more
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by Chris Mead
I do not believe that a single-sex school would have any bearing on how well a child learns. The ability to learn is partially hereditary and partially instilled in a child's f...read more
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