Just Some Short Notes Today
Submitted by Boys and Schools Blog
There’s an interesting debate going on regarding the efficacy of single-sex education on the Wall Street Journal’s “The Juggle” (basically, a juggling-family-and-work blog). The impetus for the discussion comes from the decision of Georgia’s Greene County School Board to introduce single-sex academies–a decision that has brought them some criticism, but which I defended in an earlier entry. It is true that I believe that single-sex programs must be introduced with more in mind than simply separating the sexes and hoping that will solve all the problems. A truly effective single-sex program must include an awareness of boys and girls learning and developmental differences. But I do think that such a bold and inventive solution might do a lot to help struggling students in troubled schools.
