Single-sex education is based on “pseudoscience,” charge a team of neuroscience and child development experts in a Science article. There is “no empirical evidence” that segregating students by sex improves education, they argue. There’s plenty of evidence it can increase gender stereotyping among students and adults.Short-term gains are attributed to the Hawthorne Effect, or to "motivate" evaluators. Commenters on Joanne's post question the bias of the study's authors.
Education, politics, and anything else that catches my attention.
Monday, September 26, 2011
Single-sex = Pseudoscience
Joanne's on a roll today:
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