I read this article in the New York Times talking about the benefits of boys and girls being taught separately.

They found the boys and girls were better off in different classes—like they would learn better and be able to pass the exams that were assigned to them at the end of the school year. But they didn’t find enough evidence to support having single-sex public schools. Especially because students of both sexes in the co-ed fifth grade did better on the last year’s tests, far as math and English than their counterparts in the single – sex rooms. That’s against people saying that single-sex education is better. But what the article did say was unlike other programs aimed at improving student’s performance, there is no extra cost.

Me personally, I feel that it might be a good idea to separate single sex, but only in like math and English, subjects that we really need to focus on during high school. Sometimes it can be hard trying to focus when you’re too busy focusing on someone you like or things like that. Sometime you can find yourself not doing your class work or participating in class because of you being shy, and that is were you find yourself failing that class later in time. If it was up to me I would try out single-sex classrooms in the Bay Area school district for about a full grading period to see if the grades will change as well.
—Denise McNair

This blog was written during a New America Media Education Reporting Fellowship for Youth, which was funded through The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.