Single sex education is a bad idea

Sorry, your comment was not saved due to a technical problem. In the s, retired Harvard professor Edward H. It has known security flaws and a limited feature set. Opponents say single-sex classes and schools perpetuate gender stereotypes and that segregating kids by gender smacks of the kind of discrimination that — until Brown v.

Clinton, Sanders spar over specifics in Iowa. Single-sex education offers no benefits. In single-sex schools across the country, girls' classrooms are decorated in pastels while boys are surrounded by bold colors; girls are assigned to read romantic fiction, while boys are given non-fiction books; boys are subjected to frequent drills and timed tests, while girls are assigned group work and non-competitive activities — and on and on.

Board of Education struck down the practice in — allowed schools to segregate based on race. The Bush administration decided to press forward anyway, and in issued guidelines signaling it wouldn't go after single-sex public schools for violating laws against sex discrimination in education. Meanwhile, evidence is mounting that single-sex education can do real harm single sex education is a bad idea perpetuating limiting gender stereotypes. Hyde said advocates of single-sex education often cite research studies that lack control groups, comparing, for example, a single-sex school within a privileged community with a coed school where students enjoy fewer advantages. Please update your browser.