ACE Analysis single sex schools pt.2

 Argument: Single-sex public schools should be more prominent because they help kids learn better than in co-educational schools.


Claims and Evidence

1. Improvement in Behavior

  •  In co-educational schools, girls and boys can be distracted by each other and act out to impress each other, but in single-sex schools girls and boys are separated and can focus on their academics.
  • In single sex schools, girls are more likely to participate, boys are more likely to be cooperative, and both are more likely to have better attendance records.
  •  Janice Streitmatter studied and compared the results of girls taking physics in a coeducational and single-sex setting and found that "in the single- sex physics class 87.5% of the girls made an ‘A’ and 12.5% of the girls made a ‘B’; whereas in the coeducational class only 14.3% of the girls made an ‘A’, 14.3% made a ‘B’, and 71.4% made a ‘C’". This shows how separating boys and girls helps improve behavior, and increase participation and willingness to achieve academic success.


2. Helps disadvantaged and minority students

  •  Cornelius Riordan, professor of sociology at Providence College, stated that "When he studied data on minorities attending Catholic schools, he found that black and Latino students in single-gender schools academically outperformed their peers in co-ed Catholic schools".

  • Some students cannot afford to go to a private single-sex school, so making more public ones would help kids to become more academically and parents would be happy to see this improvement
  • It is a fact that minority students tend to outpace non-minority students in single-sex schools, but do not preform as well in public schooling.

3. Boys and Girls would learn better
  • Richard Hawley suggests, “Physiological and psychological differences between girls and boys require different teaching techniques at different times", which means boys and girls psychologically are suited for different learning styles that can't be implemented for both girls and boys.  
  • Boys usually need more space to work and benefit more from the use of movement in lessons and girls are usually more collaborative, so it would make sense if they were separated and teachers could adapt to these learning preferences.
  • Research has shown that teachers have found it difficult to switch between all boy classes to all girl classes, which shows how both environments require different learning and social techniques that should be enforced in the public school system.

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