Nothing Special   »   [go: up one dir, main page]
Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 36 views

    CH 2 Reading 2 The Low Down On Same Sex Education

    Uploaded by

    Mae Wallace
    Single-sex education is gaining popularity again as research shows boys and girls learn differently. Boys tend to excel at spatial skills and large motor tasks, while girls develop language skills and abstract thinking earlier. Additionally, coed classrooms tend to favor how girls learn and behave, putting boys at a disadvantage. Supporters argue all-girls schools help girls feel empowered without social pressures, leading them to study more STEM fields. While research is limited, anecdotal evidence suggests benefits like increased subject diversity for both sexes in single-sex schools, though the real world remains coed, so social skills must still be developed.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    CH 2 Reading 2 The Low Down On Same Sex Education

    Uploaded by

    Mae Wallace
    36 views1 page
    Single-sex education is gaining popularity again as research shows boys and girls learn differently. Boys tend to excel at spatial skills and large motor tasks, while girls develop language skills and abstract thinking earlier. Additionally, coed classrooms tend to favor how girls learn and behave, putting boys at a disadvantage. Supporters argue all-girls schools help girls feel empowered without social pressures, leading them to study more STEM fields. While research is limited, anecdotal evidence suggests benefits like increased subject diversity for both sexes in single-sex schools, though the real world remains coed, so social skills must still be developed.

    Original Description:

    Original Title

    Ch 2 Reading 2 The Low Down on Same Sex Education (1)

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Single-sex education is gaining popularity again as research shows boys and girls learn differently. Boys tend to excel at spatial skills and large motor tasks, while girls develop language skills and abstract thinking earlier. Additionally, coed classrooms tend to favor how girls learn and behave, putting boys at a disadvantage. Supporters argue all-girls schools help girls feel empowered without social pressures, leading them to study more STEM fields. While research is limited, anecdotal evidence suggests benefits like increased subject diversity for both sexes in single-sex schools, though the real world remains coed, so social skills must still be developed.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    36 views1 page

    CH 2 Reading 2 The Low Down On Same Sex Education

    Uploaded by

    Mae Wallace
    Single-sex education is gaining popularity again as research shows boys and girls learn differently. Boys tend to excel at spatial skills and large motor tasks, while girls develop language skills and abstract thinking earlier. Additionally, coed classrooms tend to favor how girls learn and behave, putting boys at a disadvantage. Supporters argue all-girls schools help girls feel empowered without social pressures, leading them to study more STEM fields. While research is limited, anecdotal evidence suggests benefits like increased subject diversity for both sexes in single-sex schools, though the real world remains coed, so social skills must still be developed.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    of 1

    Reading 2: The Lowdown on Single-Sex Education

    Not long ago single-sex schools were viewed as relics from another age, a time when boys
    took woodshop and girls studied home economics. Now the pendulum is swinging the other
    way. Legislators are considering funding single-sex public schools, and single-sex private
    schools are back in vogue. Why?
    Call it Mars and Venus in the classroom. Experts say that boys and girls simply learn
    differently, and that ignoring inborn differences shortchanges both sexes. According to these
    experts, girls tend to mature faster both socially and physically, and to develop language
    fluency, fine motor skills, and understanding of abstract concepts before boys do. Boys gain
    large motor control sooner, tend to be more literal than girls, and excel at spatial
    relationships. Perhaps more important, boys and girls behave differently.
    “The behavior expected (and rewarded) in the classroom—quiet, patient, orderly acceptance
    of facts—favors how girls approach their classes,” says Michael Obel-Omia, head of Upper
    School at University School in Hunting Valley, Ohio, which is all male. Like many, Obel-
    Omia believes boys enter coed schools at a disadvantage to girls, and may be shortchanged
    by a one-size-fits-all program.
    Conversely, proponents of all-girls' schools say that deep-rooted sexism cheats girls in coed
    programs. Studies have shown that teachers call on girls less often than boys, and girls report
    feeling inhibited about speaking up in class. By removing the social pressure to impress the
    opposite sex, the reasoning goes, girls feel free to take more risks.
    Although long-term research is lacking, anecdotal evidence seems to bear this out. Girls in
    single-sex schools are more likely to take math, computer science, and physics classes, as well
    as play sports, than their peers in coed schools; boys are more likely to study art, music,
    drama, and foreign languages. Some evidence suggests that boys in all-boys' schools are less
    competitive and more cooperative, which has led some to push for single-sex public schools
    in low-income areas.
    Of course, we live in a coed world, and eventually everyone has to learn to work together.
    “With an all-girls' school you really need to take the initiative in finding male friends,” notes
    Katharine Krotinger, a senior at the all-female Dana Hall School in Massachusetts.
    Otherwise, students of both sexes can feel like a fish out of water when they reach a coed
    college or the workplace.
    Only you and your child can predict whether a single-sex school will be an educational haven
    or a social desert. As for Krotinger, she's looking forward to starting college in the fall—on
    a coed campus.

    Hannah Boyd, “The Lowdown on Single-Sex Education.” Article reprinted with permission from
    Education.com, a Web site with thousands of articles for parents of preschool through grade 12 children,
    www.education.com.

    You might also like