In the 2011 – 2012 school year, more than 500 public schools in America offered single-sex schooling options for students, despite lack of scientific or academic proof that these arrangements benefit the students in attendance. Christine Gross-Loh examines this issue in a an article for The Atlantic where she says that critics call same-sex schooling “sexist” and ineffective. While most people view same-sex schooling as a strictly female issue, male-only schools have been on the rise in recent years to combat things like dropout rates in Black and Latino populations. For girls, single-sex schooling advocates say that young women can …
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