An already heated debate over single-sex education is boiling over. Many public schools have been experimenting with putting boys and girls in separate classrooms for part of the day, or using single-sex academies as a low-cost way to try and raise academic performance. But a new study published in Science magazine finds no solid evidence that such methods work — and offers evidence that single-sex education is more likely to make children sexist, by increasing gender stereotyping and legitimizing institutional sexism. Are boys- and girls-only classrooms counter-productive?
Apparently. We should not be teaching kids sexism: Nobody is saying children learn less in sex-segregated classrooms, says Madeline Holler at Babble, but they're not learning more that way either. And now we find out it "makes kids sexist"? It's pretty clear that our "desperate effort to raise test scores and improve education" is not working as promised.
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