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KCTS Connects Special: The Learning Curve
KCTS Connects Special Edition: The Learning Curve: Single Sex Education
Thursday, January 27, at 8:00 p.m.
At Thurgood Marshall Elementary in Seattle you won’t see boys teasing girls in the classroom. That’s
because boys and girls have separate classes.
On the next Learning Curve we take a look at single-sex education, a growing national trend in public schools.
Find out how girls and boys learn differently and how gender-targeted teaching boosts performance.
“Girls need opportunities to talk, to share, to boost their confidence. Boys need more active learning,”
says teacher Cassandra Lee Baddeley.
“When we have classes geared toward girls and classes geared toward boys we have very few discipline
problems in the classroom,” says Winifred Todd, the principal at Thurgood Marshall Elementary.
You’ll also hear from critics who believe single-sex schools are risky business for public schools because
they could promote discrimination and reinforce gender stereotypes. Despite that criticism, you’ll see what the
Bush administration is doing right now that could lead to an explosion of boys classes and girls classes in public
school.
Please see KCTS Connects website on KCTS.org for related links and articles.
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