same sex schools

Running Head : SAME SEX EDUCATION

Same Sex Education : The Effects on the Students

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Same sex education , also known as the single sex education imposes advantages and disadvantages to the students enrolled in this type of schooling . Both male and female students may enjoy or detest the experiences they may have in this kind of setting . Nevertheless , as the researches suggest , this educational set-up yields students more beneficial and positive results

Same Sex Education : The Effects on the Students

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same sex schooling become debatable through time . It becomes the central discussion of different education sectors . Proponents and opponents of the said educational setting have been taking this issue on perspective since education has been recognized . However , its effectiveness is still in question . Same sex education or schooling can also be coined as single sex education or schooling . In this educational setting , a class or a school at large is composed of students of the same sex . It is the entire opposite of the coeducational education setting - both sexes share a common class and activities . Aside from the issue of effectiveness , people concern on the same sex setting also take into account the beneficial and downside effects of this to the students - both male and female

Statistics shows , according to the National Association for Single Sex Public Education (NASSPE , that same sex schooling or the same sex education setting has increased in popularity and support in the past decade . To date , there are 25 single sex public schools in the United States which were established in huge number in 1996 . Likewise , 72 other schools offer single sex classes . Experts suspect that the growing trend of same sex education will continue (2004

Research on the advantage of the students in same sex education over the coeducation setting has not resulted to any general conclusion . A survey research conducted in 1988 by the American Association of University Women supported the previous claim that indeed same sex education setting has no overall benefit to the students . However , there are also researches on the same issue suggesting that girls and boys have varying means of learning - girls acquire knowledge differently compared with boys . Also , some students were found out to learn better when separated from the opposite sex (Schemo , 2004

Russell-Baca debates on the issue on whether same sex education promotes stereotyping among male and female students . The popular belief about same sex education upholds stereotyping - that boys must be an engineer and girls must be a teacher or a nurse . However , Russell-Baca claims that this idea is inaccurate . In coeducational school (mixed-educational setting , boys are afraid to be labeled as homosexual so they would not take art courses . Likewise , they would not take advanced courses in any subject in fear of being called geek or genius . Nevertheless , girls would not focus or take courses related to math and science in the fear of being labeled as masculine (2007

Effects on Students : General Perspective

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