Topic > The Importance of Single-Sex Education - 730

Some studies also show that single-sex institutions are harmful to the emotional health of males. They believe that the reason some men don't understand women is because they went to single-sex schools. According to (Garner, 2009), single-sex schools are more likely to be separated or divorced from their partner than those who attended a coeducational school when they are in their 40s. Furthermore, the results of research conducted among the study group of all those born in a single week in 1958 at the College of Education in London, which covered 17,000 adults, showed that children who attended mixed schools were less capable of relating to the opposite sex. compared to those who attended coeducational schools (Garner, 2009). While some of the arguments made by single-gender advocates are significant to some extent, the single-sex education system has proven to be much more effective. First, students in single-sex schools are known to perform better academically than students in single-sex schools. For example, researchers at Stetson University conducted research on a three-year pilot project at Woodward Avenue Elementary School (a nearby public school) comparing coed classes with single-sex classes. The relevant parameters matched: all teachers had the same training, demographics were the same, class sizes were the same, etc. The results: 37% of kids in co-ed classes scored proficient compared to 86% of kids who scored proficient in single-sex classes. classes, fifty-nine percent of girls in coeducational classes scored advanced compared to seventy-five percent in single-sex classes (The Evidence, n.d.). According to (Spielhofer, Donnell, Benton, Schagen, & Schagen, 2002), research commissioned by the “National F...... middle of paper ......ry, 2001). Furthermore, single-sex education not only improves students' academic performance, but also helps create more well-rounded people. Single sex has been proven to broaden students' horizons, allowing them to freely explore their interests without constraints of gender stereotypes. Furthermore, gender-segregated schools should not be seen as competition for coeducational schools. It can be seen as an alternative for students who are falling behind. In this essay, I have argued for the benefits of single-gender education, which includes better academic achievement of boys and girls in single-sex schools, learning differences between boys and girls, producing far more well-rounded people, etc. The points of supporters of the mixed system were also significant, but single-sex schools still prove to be more effective. Therefore, single-sex schools are better than co-educational schools.