Suits Challenge Classrooms That Segregate Boys, Girls

Caroline Porter:

Public-school students in some parts of the country this year are going back to very different classrooms than they are used to: ones with both boys and girls.

A decade long campaign to separate genders in schools--based on the theory that children learn better that way--has sparked a backlash that is chalking up victories. Critics have sued three districts to end their single-sex classes, and sent letters of concern to 15 others.

A judge in one of those lawsuits last week ordered a school district in West Virginia to halt its single-sex program, and a handful of other districts around the country have voluntarily suspended their own split-gender classes for the new school year.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at September 8, 2012 2:05 AM
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