Single-Sex Education vs. Co-Education

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Throughout the 20th century, there was an assumption that Co-Education was the only choice for education. It had reached the point that Single-Sex Education was discriminating, and was considered to be inherently. Finally, in the last decade, the federal guidelines of Education have become more relaxed and are now allowing Single-Sex Education. In the past decade, a number of schools have offered and also experienced with Single-Sex Education. Single-Sex Education is a great offer for schools, and should be used more often.

In the mix of everything, I have found many reasons why Single-Sex Education is the right choice, and why it can also be the wrong one. Single-Sex Education is successful because it offers: comfort, less drama and good grades. Co-Education, Single-Sex Education’s “enemy,” is successful because it offers three things that Single-Sex Education doesn’t; which is: gender interactions, different leveled classes, and lastly, no enrollment fee. This is a reason why many parents prefer it because of the benefits of not as much money having to be spent.

Throughout all the readings I looked at, Amy Novotney’s “Coed vs. Single-Sex Ed,” from the American Psychological Association happened to be the most useful. It was posted on February 1st, 2011, and it stated, “In 2006, at an all-male school, only four percent of the class could read at grade level, but later that year, in May to be exact, almost 100 percent of the senior class could read at different grade levels, and were being accepted into four-year colleges, or universities. Many of them were even on full academic scholarships. Thus, Single-Sex Education has been growing ever since.

After reading Amy Novotney’s article, I wanted to do some more digging. I ...

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...es. With these classes, students are allowed to succeed in their college life at an earlier age, which is nice because then these students are more prepared for their schooling future.

Single-Sex Education can be successful, but also unsuccessful. Compared to Co-Education, it might come in 2nd place, but it’s still a great opportunity for students all around the world, and I think that Single-Sex Education is a great offer for schools, and should be used more often. It falls behind in some areas like interaction and grade leveling but it also pulls ahead in things like better grades, gpa, and focus. The true key to education is what works for the student, I have seen students strive in many different types of education and I seen students that would pry do better in the other. It is really all up to what the student wants and what they are willing to put into it.

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