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Single Sex Scools : Pros and Cons

Single-sex education? To the most people, single-sex education seems strange and old fashioned. Few Americans have had firsthand experience with single-gender education, and fewer still have ever been inside a single-gender public schools. Besides: Woman and men work together and live together, so shouldn’t girls and boys go to school together? The argument in favor of coeducation seems obvious and intuitive.
But, “Sometimes, intuitions are just wrong-the world seems flat but it is not… Things that are obvious are not necessarily true, and many things that are true are not at all obviuos”. This can be summarized in just a few sentences:

1. The brains of girls and boys different in important ways. These differences are geneticaly programmed and are present at birth.
2. Girls and boys have different learning styles, in part because of those innate, biological...

Posted by: Tamara Moore

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