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West Virginia Middle School to Institute Single-Sex Classrooms

According to a Sept. 6 article by Kristen Sell of channel WOWK-13, some students at Van Devender Middle School in Parkersburg, W. Va., will be taught in gender-specific classrooms beginning with the 2010-2011 academic year:
Starting in 2010, sixth grade students will be involved with gender based education in core classes.
Boys will be taught one way, while girls will be taught another because of the way we learn. The staff has gone through intensive training and the changes will be phased in slowly in order to ensure the success of the program.
"There are more than 500 public schools across [the country] that currently used gender based education as a way to teach students," Sell reported.

Labels: single-sex education, public-schools

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