Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Sex Segregated Schools- what are your thoughts??

The Article "Gender Matters" is an article written by Amy Standen and if focuses on single-sex schools. The area is in East Palo Alto, California and the majority of the population are kids classified as "high risk". They only have single-sex instruction in curriculum studies, but they share the grounds for all of their other activities. There are 51 single-sex schools in America. A wide range of tribute is given to the success of students who were in these schools. It is important for schools to be divided because this way they are mirroring the needs of the sexes.
We may be thinking "Segregation" and automatically align it with negativity. It is not the case with these individual schools who are still abiding by the law because it is only the instructional time that is segregated. The students are allowed interaction with their peers. The study found that "when you segregate groups based on a characteristic, you give enhanced importance to that characteristic."

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