Comments on: Same Sex Classrooms

By: More Same Sex Classrooms « Petunias

More Same Sex Classrooms « Petunias — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:01:25 +0000

[...] The New York Times has another article about same sex classrooms. I’ve had a few posts about this. My take-away is that any gender difference in learning is dwarfed by individual differences. And [...]

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Gender Differences « Petunias — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:10:22 +0000

[...] of the differences found between genders are dwarfed by deviation within a gender (as I noted in this piece about same sex classrooms). And right on time, Kevin Drum links to a study that finds that the [...]

By: dashofpanache

dashofpanache — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:14:30 +0000

yeah, I agree with a lot of what you’re saying. The last part was particularly intriguing, and I’d support that sort of social pressure to return to “dating” and not just “hooking up.” I like the idea of experimenting with class structures and everything, but it should be done in a reasonable way. If the empirical evidence supports the idea of single-sex classroom, then fine, let’s look closer at it. However, if you’re bending science to your ideology, let’s stop the dissemination of bad info; that can have some pretty bad effects (just look at NCLB). Thanks for such a great compilation of information.

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Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:17:54 +0000

[...] http://fredtopeka.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/same-sex-classrooms-2/In fact, after a nearly-two-hour conversation filled with scientific jargon and brains, he told me, perhaps wishfully, that really the most important reason to send a child to a single-sex high school was that those kids still go on … [...]