Single Sex Schooling, who's failing and who cares

[ishai_wallace]

There has been lots of talk lately about single sex education, and how it might be a way to resolve "the boy crisis". The new director of the Toronto District School Board has put forward a motion to start a "Male Leadership Academy" and has proposed having more "boy friendly" classrooms across the city. Male Leadership Academy as a name drives me

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[suitablyemoname]

I actually support the basic underlying idea of this school, insofar as I think plurality in educational methods is A Very Good Thing. I'm prepared to accept that some students will perform better in a gender-segregated environment, and that to this extent it is desirable to offer such an environment as an option when there is sufficient demand to allow for it without detracting from the availability of other programming. The TDSB has over 400 elementary schools, so converting one of them to a single-gender environment on an experimental, opt-in basis seems reasonable enough

[ishai_wallace]

I did start to look at the numbers by department, but I could not find national statistics and was worried that I was beginning to get too long here. York is not unusual in this reguard. Basically, with the exception of medicine (where females outnumber males) men continue to outnumber women in programs of study that lead to careers that are have been traditionally male dominated. I wonder how university controls of admissions have effected this, but have not done any research on the area