Single-sex education is seeing a reemergence and could be a key to helping low- to middle-income minority students succeed in the classroom.
We all learned as young women the hard-to-measure notion that females can be leaders in any area just by looking around us at our peers. This knowledge and the confidence that comes with it can't be discounted.
When it comes to education, are boys the new girls? Are they facing more discrimination than their female peers, just because they are sexually different?
Last month marked the grand opening of the Eagle Academy for Young Men of Newark, the city’s first and only public, single-sex school. The academ...
By Alicia Thomas As your senior year of high school flies by, you’re faced with a million choices about where you want to go to college next year...
According to a recent report by the New York Civil Liberties Union, numerous public school districts across New York State are providing their student...
The concept is based on the different learning styles of boys and girls as well as cuts down on "distractions such as flirting."
MIDDLETON, Idaho -- Robin Gilbert didn't set out to confront gender stereotypes when she split up the boys and girls at her elementary school in rural...
Gender stereotypes remain some of the most intractable in our society. We can't afford to have public institutions legitimizing them.
The single-sex movement in public schools has been growing fast, but there is little to no evidence that single-sex classrooms improve academic achievement.
This week Oregon announced that 6,800 high school seniors were at risk of being denied diplomas because they were unable to pass the state reading test. 3,900 of those students are males.
By Kevin Murphy Kevin Murphy Kansas City, Mo. -- Middle school lunch periods can be a free-for-all of teasing, rough-housing and flirting among boys...
The South Carolina Department of Education released a report Tuesday, which summarized the results of surveys given to students, parents and teachers ...
Girls in classrooms were consistently undermined and overlooked. They're taught to behave, in every stage of learning, in every sort of school. Except in girl's schools, of course.
