Middle School Provides Glimpse of Vision for New All Girls Public Schools

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'Seeking to encourage more girls to pursue math and science at top caliber levels, the public school system in Los Angeles will try something that has long been the province of private education: the all-girls school.

The envisioned Girls Academic Leadership academy, already dubbed "GALA," will span grades 6-12 and be located on the campus of LA High, which will continue to operate as a traditional co-education school. GALA will offer a curriculum stressing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, known by the acronym "STEM," and also stress developing leadership qualities.
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Advocates cite academic research that has found that girls in single-sex secondary schools, on average, do better academically. In elementary school, girls often outperform boys. It's theorized that in later years, girls fall behind because they are intimidated from competing in the classroom with more aggressive boys.
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But what about the boys who YOKA Principal Colacion sees benefitting from same sex classrooms?

"It's a good question," responded Colacion. "Maybe we'll have to look at the possibility of a single gender boys academy as well."'