Single Sex Schools

In proposed changes to Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in
education, the Bush administration wants to encourage creation of single-sex public schools and classes.Our studies of sexism in America's education system have praised private single-sex schools becausethey offer the promise that education can transform the future of girls. Girls who attend these schools speak more freely in class, are more likely to major in math and science, and perhaps most encouraging,are more likely to attend college and graduate school.

There were anecdotal reports that the girls enjoyed being in an environment free of sexual harassment and classroom interruptions, while the boys' schools degenerated into a disciplinary disaster, becoming little more than
magnets for troubled youth.

http://www.sadker.org/SingleSexSchools.pdf