Same Sex Education

[Solitaire]

Same Sex Education (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/education/jan-june03/classrooms_05-19.html)


Bailey Bridge Middle School-- grades six through eight, with more
than 1,600 students-- was like most other middle schools in the
country until last August. A glitch in the school's computer system
resulted in a random assignment of 98 percent girls to one section
of the sixth grade and 98 percent to another, leaving three sections,
or teams, as they're known - coed.

Boulderdash! That ain't random.

It allows girls to find out who they are, to pursue their interests in math
and computer science. It allows boys who might be interested in art,
music, drama, to pursue those interests. In coed schools, girls and boys
are funneled into gender stereotypes. In single-sex schools, you break
down gender stereotypes, you enhance educational opportunity.

This arguement doesn't look stable to me. Don't build on it.

Racial categories are socially constructed. You can't look at a piece
of brain tissue under the microscope and tell me whether it came from
a white person or a black person, but you can look at a piece of brain
tissue under the microscope and say whether it came from a woman
or a man.

What? I'd like to test your microscopic abilites please.

Bailey Bridge Middle School is hoping to receive a grant for $28,000
from the National Science Foundation to study single-sex classrooms.
When the U.S. Department of Education releases the new regulations,
we'll find out whether single-sex education is just another fad or an
important new direction in education.

Hmmmmmmmm................

[LW]

Originally posted by Synchronicity



Boulderdash! That ain't random.

This calls for a quote from P. Seebach's C infrequently asked questions list (http://www.plethora.net/~seebs/faqs/c-iaq.html).


12.6: I need a random true/false value, so I'm taking rand() % 2, but it's just alternating 0, 1, 0, 1, 0...

That seems pretty random to me.

[Martin]

12.3: I need a random number generator.

Count errors in Herbert Schildt's C books. No one has detected any consistent pattern:D

[celter]

Single sex schools may be a means of addressing what has become a crisis in educating boys.
Schools, particularly elementary schools, are not boy friendly. Female teachers outnumber males by a ratio of about six to one. Curriculum is designed for children who don't daydream in class, who aren't distracted by what's going on outside, and who can sit still, keep quiet and do what they're told. Girls seem to be better suited for this structure than boys.

Boys in school are more likely to struggle academically, to have disciplinary problems, to be suspended and to be held back a grade. They are also more likely to be diagnosed with "learning disabilities" such as ADHD and are about four times as likely to be drugged (ritalin) as a result. I see evidence of these things regularly at my son's elementary school.

The gap in language skills between boys and girls is present early and continues to widen as kids move into high school. Girls in high school are now on average nearly two full grade levels ahead of boys in reading and writing. Girls join clubs and participate in extra curricular activities more than boys. They run for student government, publish school papers, and join clubs such as chess and debating in numbers that far exceed boys.

School systems that are tailored for the unique learning styles of each gender may help to address these issues.

This link is to an article describing a UK study on the benefits, for boys, of single sex education.
http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/03/30/ncoed30.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/03/30/ixhome.html

[subgenius]

celter:
A well reasoned post, with support.
And welcome.