In , the state Education Department placed Clary Middle School on a watch list of low-performing schools. With improvements that included after-school programs, summer school and increased parent involvement, the school raised its state test scores, leading the education department to remove Clary from the watch list in March Now Principal Pamela Odom wants to separate boys and girls in an attempt to improve the educational atmosphere and boost achievement even higher. More than public schools nationwide now offer single-sex classrooms, up from 11 in The increase followed federal rules that allowed single-sex classes if enrollment is voluntary and comparable programs are available to males and females. Odom envisions a school in which boys and girls enter through separate doors, learn in separate classrooms and eat lunch in separate areas. Her vision is to improve the academic performance of boys and girls by cutting down on social distractions.
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In her first days on the job, L. In the s, retired Harvard professor Edward H. Clarke ignited popular interest in single-sex education — by arguing that exposing adolescent girls to the rigors of a standard education would cause their reproductive organs to wither. In the s, after racial segregation was declared unconstitutional, sex-segregated public schools were created across the South to keep boys and girls of different racial backgrounds apart. Today, in a major reversal, single-sex education has found political champions among supporters of gender equality and those who believe that black and Latino boys in particular will benefit from being educated apart from their female peers. In , then-Sen. Hilary Clinton co-sponsored a provision of the No Child Left Behind Act that provided federal funds to fledgling single-sex public schools, spurring local school districts across the country to experiment with sex segregation. A few years later, however, a government-commissioned study noted a lack evidence proving that single-sex education improved student performance. Today, there are nearly 80 single-sex public schools in the U. Hundreds more schools separate boys and girls during academic instruction, though the campuses are technically coed.
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