Single-sex classrooms and schools - Worth Noting - Brief Article

Humanist, Sept-Oct, 2002 by Karen Ann Gajewski

* The U.S. Department of Education wants to modify Title IX--the thirty-year-old and equal education mandate--in order "to establish single-sex classrooms and schools at the elementary and secondary levels." This initiative is a followup to a provision sponsored by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson (Republican--Texas), inserted into H.R. 1--the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Hutchinson tried for several years to get such an initiative adopted but was vigorously opposed by feminists and prominent education associations.

Karen Ann Gajewski is associate editor and art director at the Humanist.