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Australia: Boys' schools break barriers: single-sex success story
Submitted by anthony on Tue, 2008-10-14 15:12
Article here. Excerpt:
'BOYS will be boys and single-sex schools can help break down sexism.
This will be the message delivered by visiting US education expert Dr Leonard Sax in his keynote address when the National Boys' Education Conference starts at The King's School in Parramatta today.
Dr Sax, executive director of the National Association for Single Sex Public Education in the US, is in no doubt "we live in a sexist society".
He said some teachers at all-boys' schools were able to use the "all-boys format to break down the gender stereotypes".'
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Good to hear
This is very good news. What aggravates me so much is those feminist institutions that go beserk over co-ed schools that have sex segregated classrooms. Title IX was modified in 2006 to allow for this but you get feminists saying "separate is not equal!", shows how much they want to pull boys down by a feminised system.
From this feminist article: http://feminist.org/education/SexSegregation.asp
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"However, in many cases sex segregated education is based on false assumptions about sex differences in learning and likely to have negative consequences. Those considering sex segregated instruction should be aware of the following"
"Many assumptions about benefits of sex segregation are educationally unsound. Many of the post 2006 sex segregated classes and schools are based on inaccurate claims of innate student differences by sex and related myths that male and female students learn differently and should receive dissimilar instruction. Good educational practices can and do meet the needs of both girls and boys in a coeducational setting by addressing individual needs and by consciously striving for gender equity in curriculum and instruction."
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They insist that the needs of boys are being met. Yeah right. I think many people, particularly within the education system, are starting to change their minds in relation to these comments.
Overall, a good article.
Overall, a good article. However, surely it isn't necessary to teach "girly" novels such as Jane Eyre in boys only schools. I would have thought that it would be easier to adjust the curriculum to the boys rather than the other way around.