Won't somebody think of the children?

[differenceblog]

Pauline Vu, reporting for Stateline.org, says that the number of public single-sex schools has risen from 5 to 241 in the past decade. Leonard Sax, director of the National Association for Single Sex Public Education and author of Why Gender Matters claims that girls and boys have different learning styles and that these differences can be used

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[bibliohermione]

Hi, read your post to womenscolleges. (Also friended you, btw

[differenceblog]

Thank you for your insights! You raise a really good point about the developmental/socialization stages of elementary vs. secondary vs. college.

Strangely, I can't think of anyone I know who went to a single-sex high school or elementary school, and I'm in the unusual position of having most of the people I know who went to women's colleges being men now. *grin*

I suppose I should look for studies that compare single-sex vs. coed classes and control for class size. Thanks again for your thoughts.

[ukelele]

I teach in a K-9 boys' school (and just got pointed to this post

[rdi]

It seems like some things I learn better by failing and repeating, and other things I learn better by watching, while sometimes I need to understand the mechanisms that make them function before I can really begin.

Have you noticed any relationship between what you're learning and the mode of learning?

[differenceblog]

not that I've noticed, but I have one data point. I'd be interested to see if there's a correlation there.