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Single Gender Academies
In a new attempt at separate but equal, classrooms segregated by sex are up and running in California. Do boys and girls really learn better apart? Or does separating students send the wrong message -- that they are just too different to get along? Single sex classrooms in New York are under fire from civil rights groups. What's the reaction here?
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readJanice Wienman: Executive Director, American Association of University Women Dan Edwards: Assistant secretary in Governor Wilson's Office of Child Development and Education. Anne Conners: President, NOW (National Organization for Women) New York City Jason Messer: Principal of the new Horace Mann Acadamy for Boys and Mary McCleod Bethune Acadamy for Girls and Brookside School in Stockton. Prof. C. Fuchs Epstein: Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Currently a visiting professor at Stanford Law School. Has written extensively on the subject of gender and of discrimination. Carolyn Scott: Principal, 49ers Academy, a single gender school in East Palo Alto. Jacqelyn Boone James: Assistant director, Radcliffe, College's Murray Research Center, which studies issues affecting women Mark Ridley-Thomas: Los Angeles City Councilman representing South Central's District 8. Has been lobbying the NFL to bring a team to the Coliseum. Andy Lipkis: Founder and President, TreePeople.
topic: NFL Keeps Options Open
