Single-sex Ed Could Expand

In northeast Georgia, Barrow County schools are adding more single-gender classes. After seeing success with a pilot program this year at Winder-Barrow Middle School, the superintendent says he is considering starting all-girl and all-boy classes at three other schools. District officials say students in the single-sex classes improved their math scores on the Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests, while students from mixed-gender classes did not do as well. About 10 districts in Georgia offer single-gender classes.

(Associated Press)

County backtracks on single-sex ed

Greene County is scaling back its plans to become the country’s first entirely single-sex school district. Instead, the county will allow only third graders to choose whether to attend single-gender classes. So, far only 30 percent have signed up. Greene County had planned to segregate its 2,000 students by gender starting this fall, but the plan angered parents and sparked heated public forums.

Greene Co. schools to be segregated by sex

Starting next fall, public school students in Greene County will learn in single-sex classrooms. Educators in the rural east Georgia school district hope the move will improve test scores and student behavior. One charter school in the district will be exempt from the change. The county is believed to be the first school district in the U.S. to entirely convert to single-sex education.