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"Simply put, girls have better educational outcomes when taught by women, and boys are better off when taught by men"

http://cepa.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/ednext20064_68....

Pay teachers better and aim for 50% male teachers and consider going back to all boys schools and all girls schools with plenty of rules to ensure that both are treated fairly.

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I used to work for a school system that experimented with gendered classrooms. While it would be a mistake to extrapolate too much from our experience, those became the most successful classrooms at the elementary school in question. The boys did particularly well.

Naturally the ACLU would rather fight to ban the practice outright than risk additional research possibly showing that this is a productive approach, at the expense of the preferred gender politics narrative.

I thought you were being melodramatic about the ACLU, but nope, not at all:

https://www.aclu.org/blog/womens-rights/sometimes-it-only-ta...

I am all about gender equally but that seems crazy to me. As long as girls and boys receive the same standard of education then why should it matter? Seems like PC taken too far.

Same here, and sorry if that seemed hyperbolic. It's just extremely frustrating to me as someone who sees (most of) the ACLU's work as extremely important, and who has donated to them in the past.

I agree but I'm sure that separate education would turn into a political minefield if outcomes are different between the sexes. It would be the 'separate but equal' issue with race all over again.

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