Pupils at Single-Sex Schools Excel, Research Shows

Coed can be no ed

Children who attend single-sex schools score higher on tests, stay out of trouble and are more willing to study a wider range of subjects than pupils in coeducational schools, researchers report.

"I will admit that separating students by sex is not an ideal way to prepare boys and girls for personal and public lives," Rosemary C. Salomone, a St. John's University law professor and researcher, told the Washington Times' Ellen Sorokin.

Research shows that girls in single-sex schools have more confidence and are afforded more leadership opportunities than they would have in coed schools, the Times and Fox News Channel reported Thursday. And boys studying in an all-male setting are more apt to be encouraged to participate in the arts and do volunteer work in their communities.

Before World War II, in recognition of the obvious fact that mixing teenage boys with teenage girls in a secondary setting created unnecessary distractions not conducive to a studious environment, few secondary parochial schools were coed.

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