Same-Sex Education: Do Male Students Need a Male Teacher?

Article here. Excerpt:

'In last week's blog, I discussed my predominantly male class--a group of kids whose behavior I'd had tremendous difficulty managing last semester while team-teaching with a female special-education teacher. Now, with a male special-education teacher, the students' behavior was suddenly much improved. I considered that something Christina Hoff Sommers had suggested in her article--that boys needed more male teachers--might deserve some credence, despite the fact that I don't inherently like the idea: I believe that boys should be able to be educated by teachers of either gender, as long as that teacher is attuned to their learning needs.
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... Thus, at the end of the day, the gender of the teacher cannot be the only factor that predicts the success of the students--although, sometimes, it really does help.'