Let’s Talk About Sex Gender

The May 7th Education Week has a detailed article (Single-Sex Schooling Gets New Showcase) on the growing movement in South Carolina to offer more single-sex education options. The article comes with a map that lists the number of single-sex public school offerings state by state, and I was surprised to see that Washington had five listed. Doing a little poking around I came across this website from the National Association for Single Sex Public Education, which talks about programs in Camas, Vancouver, Olympia, and Seattle. I’ll be darned.

What do you think about single-sex classrooms? If you were in school, would you feel positive about the experience? Would you put your own children in single-sex environments if they were available?

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Logic!

Earlier this month Time ran a cover story arguing that there was nothing wrong with our boys today, that they’re not in trouble, that things are just fine, thank you very much.

Maybe, maybe not. It gets a little specious, though, when you throw “evidence” like this out there:

Is it bad that boys are in special education, or should we be pleased that they are getting extra help from specially trained teachers?

Um, no. We shouldn’t be happy that more boys end up in special ed. If you’re in sped, something went wrong. If something is going wrong for boys in such a way that they end up in special ed disproportionately, then yes, there’s a problem.

The Center for Education Reform has a much more detailed take here. If gender and education are important to you, it's a superior read.

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