{"id":761,"date":"2006-10-28T10:05:12","date_gmt":"2006-10-28T10:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/10\/28\/singlesex-education\/"},"modified":"2006-10-28T10:05:12","modified_gmt":"2006-10-28T10:05:12","slug":"singlesex-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/10\/28\/singlesex-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Single-Sex Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s been a lot of discussion of single-sex education in blogdom recently, in the wake of new rules allowing more single-sex schools<\/a>. Matt Yglesias offers<\/a> links<\/a>, and Kevin Drum expresses concern:<\/a><\/p>\n

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It turns out, though, that my real fear is just the opposite: what if we try it and Becks turns out to be right? What if it works? Does that mean we just give up on the whole idea of figuring out how to make co-ed education work? I can’t be the only one who thinks that would be a bad idea, can I?<\/p>\n

There are all sorts of problems of race, gender, class, religion, and so forth that can seemingly be ameliorated by simple segregation. But that just caves in to the problem, essentially declaring it unsolvable, rather than acknowledging it and continuing to search for solutions. I have a hard time believing that this does anybody any good in the long term.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In this case, I’m actually willing to make a fearless prediction of what will happen as a result of these rules: Nobody will be able to agree on the results. There will be some schools and studies where single-sex education appears to be a roaring success, and there will be other schools and studies where it appears to be a complete disaster, and people on both sides will pick and choose the ones that best support their previously chosen position, and nothing will really change.<\/p>\n

I’m confident in saying this because education is complicated<\/strong>, and highly individual. No one policy is going to be an ideal solution for everyone, and things that work brilliantly for some students will fail miserably for others. We’ll never give up on co-ed education, and we’ll never be rid of single-sex education, because there will always be people who are convinced that one or the other is the One True Approach, and there will always be some evidence to support those positions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s been a lot of discussion of single-sex education in blogdom recently, in the wake of new rules allowing more single-sex schools. Matt Yglesias offers links, and Kevin Drum expresses concern: It turns out, though, that my real fear is just the opposite: what if we try it and Becks turns out to be right?… Continue reading Single-Sex Education<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}