"National Coalition of Girls’ Schools"
Single Gender Schools Don’t Work?
Wow, we’re suffering from whiplash and waiting for the fireworks. On Friday we wrote (Understanding Boys’ Friendships) about Niobe Way’s Deep Secrets: Boys’ Friendships and the Crisis of Connection. Today, we write about the non-profit group American Council for CoEducational Schooling. They may be non-profit but, boy, do they seem to have an ax to [...]
Read MoreA Pendulum Too Far: Is it time to pay attention to boys education?
Lisa Wolfe published a thoughtful musing on the current state of boys education over at The Daily Beast, “Boys’ Self Esteem Problems.” She begins, interestingly, with a question posited by a colleague of mine about 20 years ago. We had been sitting through faculty meetings, over a few years, with topic-after-topic, idea-after-idea, and speaker-after-speaker covering [...]
Read MoreThe Benefits of Girls Schools: now on to longitudinal studies
Huffington Post contributor Susan Sawyers also posted some thoughts about the National Coalition of Girls Schools study confirming benefits for girls in single gender schools (Are Single Sex Schools Good for Girls?). While nothing earth shattering, her comments are an interesting, “yes, but…”Clearly, single gender education cultivates some benefits. Is it a panacea? No. The [...]
Read MoreLasting Power of Girls Schools: more than anecdotal
Highlighted in the current National Coalition of Girls’ Schools newsletter is a UCLA study confirming the lasting affects of a girls school education on graduates. I find the most interesting aspect of the study coming from its longitudinal view. Alumnae seem to carry and benefit from their girls school experiences deep into college and graduate [...]
Read MoreBoys and Girls Education in a Public School Setting
Today’s Memphis Commercial Appeal includes an interesting story covering school single gender classrooms in the Memphis public school system. This article makes a good addition to the vigorous discussion surrounding single gender education. Much like The Webb Schools, about which we’ve written, Memphis has seen learning and test score improvements since providing lower school (9th [...]
Read MoreConsider a Single Gender School If That’s What Best For Your Child
I recently came across an exchange between the authors of blog posts published in USA Today, Lenora M. Lapidus, Director & Emily J. Martin, Deputy Director of ACLU Women’s Rights Project – New York and Meg Moulton, Executive Director of the National Coalition of Girls’ Schools. Ms. Moulton wrote a spirited defense of single gender [...]
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