1. Education of boys and girls Single-Sex vs. Coeducation
Brendan Benway
Kye Paradise
Ella Masita

2. Contents Brief History Differences between boys and girls
Single Sex Schools
Coeducational Schools
Windham High Study
Video
Discussion
Final Thoughts

3. HISTORY OF EDUCATION Ancient Rome Europe North America
School Characteristic until 18th century:
all men with few facilities for girls.
Focused on education for boys to learn literacy and arithmetic
Girls received elementary instruction from their mothers and convents.
very few numbers of aristocratic women were educated in schools.

4. not in common for women to enroll as students in formal classes together with men;
usually attend single-sex female classes in household duties, good manners, music, and conversation.
Prepared to be good wives and mothers for their future families.

5. At the beginning of 19th century:
the new concern of education for women were arisen.
granted to give similar educational opportunities in coeducational classrooms in public schools.
Female enrollment in American public schools grew up significantly.
the higher educational institutions accepted women.

6. Before 2001: After 2001: Co-education in public schools
Single-sex education in Catholic private schools
Title IX
After 2001:
NCLB (2001)
Guidelines on current Title IX (2002)

7. Differences in Single-sex education between 19th century with 21stcentury :
No alternative option
Boys : literacy and arithmetic
Girls :household duties, good manners, music, and conversation
Religious reasons
voluntary with the coed options remain
Separated but equal
Academic achievement orientation

8. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BOYS AND GIRLS
Are they really different?

9. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BOYS AND GIRLS
Cognitive ability
Human Brain
Perceptual tasks
Memory ability
Verbal ability
Visual-spatial ability
Quantitative ability
“WOMAN IS ALWAYS CURIOUS TO WHAT MAN FORGETS
WHILE MAN IS ALWAYS CURIOUS TO WHAT WOMAN REMEMBERS”
Research ONLY found the differences of the human brain; no cause and effect conclusion

10. Psychological and social development
Aspect of aggression
Myth : boys are more aggressive than girls
Fact 1 : Yes, in physical aggression
Fact 2 : Girls are more dominant in relational aggression

11. Friendship Myth : girls were more intimate than boys
Fact 1 : boys feel emotionally closer to friend
Fact 2 : Girls like to establish intimacy through discussion and self-disclosure
Fact 3 : boys likely to do shared activities to establish close relationship

12. Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Myth : girls are at lower risk than boys
Fact 1 : girls with ADHD are less likely to be detected
Fact 2 : ADHD at boys
Hyperactive type : abnormally high activity levels and decreased ability to control their impulses
Fact 3 : ADHD at girls
Inattentive type : distractibility and difficulties focusing and sustaining attention

13. Learning styles
Accommodator
Converger
Diverger
Assimilator

14. Female : evenly distributed Male :
a substantial number in assimilators, convergers, and accommodators
More focus on the big picture of problem, enjoy evaluating process, process, or product

15. IMPORTANT NOTES
Previous data showed only male and female differences in general, not how an individual will perform
There is far more variability within a gender than there is between genders
Differences do NOT imply an order of rank
Girls and boys are different but doe not mean boys are better than girls or vice versa

16. Single Sex Schools Creates opportunities. Language and Math.
Strategies used by teachers.
Language and Math.
Boys in language
Girls in math
Achievement

17. Single Sex Schools Benefit to level of ability School Size
Which boys did better?
Which girls did better?
School Size
Large, Medium, or Small. Which is best?
Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)

18. Single Sex Schools Behavior Attendance Gender Stereotypes
Thurgood Marshall Elementary School in Seattle, Washington
Attendance
Results of a 5yr experiment at an inner-city high school in Montreal
Gender Stereotypes

19. Co-education Schools What four high school teachers said.
What does this mean?

20. Co-education Schools Life Skills Finance Social Skills Relationships
Funding of schools

21. CBS Video
Thoughts?
Is single-sex education the wave of the future or a return to the past?