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Halpern, a former APA presidents says and I quote “School is preparation for adult life. How can boys and girls learn how to interact as equals in the workplace if they have no experience interacting as equals in school?

According the team of neuroscientists of the National Institute of Mental Health, 2007, brain of girls develop in a different sequences and tempo compared to boys. As they researched by scanning 829 brains that they gathered for over 2 years from 3 to 27 years-old, researchers found several remarkable comparisons. The occipital lobe showed rapid development in girls from 6 to 10 year old while boys only showed the growth after 14 years old.

According to Janet Hyde, PhD, Madison psychologist, “Majority of these girls and
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The assignment is truly random and it is compulsory. No students can not make an excuse whether he/she will go to a single-sex or coed high school. This policy of random assigning students was instituted in 1974 specifying the prevention of clustering students from particular …show more content…
Same with boys, boys who graduated from boys only schools were significantly more likely to take up 4-year college course.

According to Bettina Hannover and Ursula Kessels, girls who wents to all girls school can greatly enhance their engagement to Physics. As they randomly assigned 401 8th graders to enter a single-sex school and coed school. The result was that girls who entered the single-sex school were more engaged in Physics class and less likely to agree in the statement such as physics are only for boys. And on the other hand, girls who entered the coed high school most likely agreed to the statement of physics are only for boys.

Dr. Leonard Sax, executive director of NASSPE said, when you consider the result of a gender-separate classrooms: simply put girls in one room and boys in the other, there is no guarantee of anything good happening. And On the contrary: some public schools without the appropriate preparation had bad

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