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Monday, May 1, 2006
Splitting up the Sexes
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
What do you all think of Atlanta’s plan to reinvent one of its most test score-challenged public schools as two schools, one for girls and one for boys? Here’s my story, which ran Sunday.
Points to consider: I’m sure our West Coast blog participant will remind us that a single-gender deal went down in flames in California. I read up on that and could find few aspects of California’s plan that are similar to this much smaller one. However, it remains a fact that the California single-gender school revolution wasn’t able to get any altitude.
The question I kept getting asked while writing this story and going through the editing process, “Do single-gender schools work?” My answer: some do, some don’t. I hope this will be one that does, but there are many, many variables to consider. This is true with any Big Plan to fix a school, isn’t it?
Parents, would you want your adolescent or teenager in an all-girls or all-boys school? Teachers, would you like to work in such a school? Those of you who went to such a school, what are your thoughts?
