Does Johnny learn better with Johnny?
If you walk in to an average public school classroom in the United States, what would you see? In addition to a teacher, desks, books, supplies, and science reports stapled to the wall, you’d probably notice an equal amount of boys and girls. But some experts suggest it may be time for a change. Don’t panic. The teachers, the books and, yes, the science reports would stay. The change proposed by many experts involves the gender composition of most of our country’s classrooms. A researcher in British Columbia recently studied the presence of male dominance in the classroom. She observed subtle teacher signals emphasizing boys’ significance over girls. Boys, she said, were encouraged for talking and girls were rewarded for their silence. This finding may come as no surprise to advocates of single-gender education who suggest that boys and girls are regularly treated differently in coeducational classrooms and that both boys and girls could benefit from single-gender classrooms. Many expe
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