ACE Analysis single-sex schools
Argument: Single sex education (SS) displays sexism in the classrooms and is not any better academically than co-educational schools.
Claims:
There is little evidence of the educational advantages single-sex schools have over co-educational schools.
There is no evidence boys and girls learn differently
There are negative impacts to single-sex education
Evidence:
Reviews by the U.S Department of Education, Great britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the Programme for International Student Assessment found that there is little difference between the academic outcomes of single sex schools and co-educational schools.
Neuroscientists have found ,except for the larger size of a boy’s brain and the earlier c pletion of a girl’s brain, few sex differences in the brain that don’t relate to learning. Although there are more sex differences in adult brains, those differences don’t relate to comprehension or learning.
Although there may be some gender stereotyping in co-educational schools, research shows that when environments segregate individuals based on some characteristic; children develop an intergroup bias, which is more prevalent in single sex schooling. Single sex schools also are argued to not prepare students for both gender work environments and could set a child up for some behavioral problems.
Halpern, Diane et al. "The Pseudoscience of Same-Sex Schooling." EducationForum. Science Magazine, 22 Sept. 2011. https://a5acc83a1039db83ade3-b17a16b1ea83a0e82700f3d165b465bb.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/y24q4d9ayv/The%20Psuedoscience%20of%20Single%20Sex%20Schooling.pdf. 11 Sept, 2020.
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