Boys get better grades at all-boys schools: study

Submitted by anthony on Mon, 2009-08-24 17:36

Article here. Excerpt:

'WELLINGTON (Reuters Life!) - Boys get better grades at single-sex schools than when they're in mixed-gender schools, where girls consistently outperform them, a recent New Zealand study shows.

The study, based on the long-term Christchurch Health and Development Study at the University of Otago, compared the educational achievements of over 900 boys and girls who attended single-sex and coeducational secondary schools in New Zealand.

For students attending single-sex secondary schools, there was a slight tendency for males to outperform females.

For students attending co-educational schools, however, there was a clear tendency for girls to outperform boys, a pattern that continued when students were followed up to the age of 25.'

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Do we never learn from history,it was well known in my youth that males were easily distracted by young females,and a lot of GOOD teachers would not teach coed
because concentration wavered and discipline was hard to implement and these teachers refused to waste their time.I suppose now we shall have a multi million inquiry.

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Submitted by saracen395 on Tue, 2009-08-25 18:09