Co-education is out and all-boy or all-girl classes are in at Campus School, a public school on the grounds of the University of Memphis, Tennessee. The experiment is operated by the College of Education as a laboratory for teaching grades one to six.
In its first year of operation, parents, teachers and students are giving the classes segregated by sex high marks.
Here are some of the benefits listed by participants:
Both classes share recess time, and 20 of the boys and girls come together for gifted classes weekly. Each week, the girls switch classes with the boys for two hours of science. The boys’ male teacher conducts the girls’ classes, while the boys meet with a female teacher for creative writing and composition.
Teaching specialists say that some studies have shown boys tend to be called upon more often than girls in mixed classes.
Source: Lila Garlington, Single-Sex Classes Get High Marks in School Experiment, Washington Times, February 26, 2001.
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