MS>SK> I haven't formed a conclusive opinion on the matter, but from
MS>SK> what  I've
MS>SK> read it does sound promising and is certainly worth further 
MS>SK> attention.
MS>SK> It may well bring improvements in performance certain students.
MS> 
MS>    Does that even matter after the VMI decision?
MS>    I can't think of any way in which the courts would accept
MS>single-sex HS  algebra classes in public schools when the courts find
MS>single-sex public  colleges unacceptable.  The standard the Supreme
MS>Court enunciated that  requires "exceedingly persuasive" arguments in
MS>favor of single-sex classes  couldn't be met in the case of a college
MS>where everyone lives on campus, so  that standard would be unmeetable
MS>for a math class in a public HS.  
I wonder....perhaps though there is a way to convince the courts that 
equality can be maintained in single-sex classes.  I don't know but do 
they still have single sex gym?  This was true when I went to school.  
If in math period one with Mr. Algebra was for males only, then period 2 
females only...isn't that equal?  I don't know that the VMI decision is 
that similar to the concept of single-sex classes in highshcool.  I have 
heard some good arguments in favor of the idea (of which I am not 
stating support just doing some *thinking-out-loud.*
Dan
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