Columbus Local News, August 24 2010
District opens doors to rare single-gender middle schools. This article describes the launch of a new girls' public school and a new boys' public school in the Columbus (Ohio) public school system. Dr. Leonard Sax, director of NASSPE, led a teacher-training workshop for teachers at both schools in August 2010, shortly before the schools opened their doors.

Washington Post, August 8 2010
Separate but equal: more schools are dividing students by gender. This lengthy feature article in the Washington Post magazine describes Imagine Southeast Public Charter School, an elementary school serving a low-income neighborhood which offers single-sex classrooms for core subjects for students in grades 1 through 5. Dr. Leonard Sax, director of NASSPE, recently led a workshop for teachers at this school, as well as a 2-day workshop for teachers at the Imagine Academy of Academic Success, another school in the Imagine family of public charter schools.

Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minnesota), August 17 2009
Single-gender education to close gender gaps in achievement Tom Mealey and colleagues at Carvel Elementary School in Maplewood (near St. Paul) have recently launched single-gender classrooms, in part in order to boost boys' motivation and achievement in reading and language arts. Early reports are positive. Dixie Gardner, whose son Blake is in the all-boys class, has noticed a big difference. Blake didn't like reading much in the coed kindergarten but he loves it now, and he even picked out a stack of books to read over summer vacation. "He comes home every day, and if someone asks him how school was, he always says, 'It's awesome,' " Gardner said. "He just loves it."

Tulsa World, June 12, 2009
Explaining single-gender education to parents. In June 2009, Dr. Leonard Sax, director of NASSPE, led a two-day workshop for Tulsa Public Schools on best practice for single-gender classrooms. He also spoke to parents in Tulsa the evening of June 12, 2009, answering questions such as: "Isn't single-sex education just another form of segregation? And, given that the real world is a coed world, shouldn't school be coed, in order to prepare kids for the real world? Dr. Sax's presentation was covered in the local newspaper.

Rome Reports, April 28, 2009
International Conference in Rome: Single-gender public education In April 2009, the European Association for Single-Sex Education (EASSE) convened their second international conference in Rome, Italy. The conference attracted hundreds of educators, from France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and from across Eastern Europe as well. This video and the accompanying article provides an overview of the Rome conference.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 19, 2009
Dividing Girls, Boys, Grows Exponentially This front-page article describes the same-sex program at Carman Trails Elementary, a public elementary school in St. Louis. In 2007, Dr. Chris Raeker, principal of Carman Trails Elementary in St. Louis, sent a team of teachers to attend a two-day workshop led by Dr. Leonard Sax on best practice for single-gender classrooms. In 2008, Dr. Raeker sent another team of teachers to another two-day workshop Dr. Sax co-hosted with Stetson University in Florida. Dr. Raeker notified us by phone in March 2009 that the BOYS in particular are thriving in the all-boys setting. The change in attitude for some of the boys has been really dramatic, she said. Some of these boys have gone from hating school to loving school. The success of this program led the TODAY show to do a segment on the school. You can watch streaming video of the TODAY show segment at this link.

Commercial Appeal (Memphis' daily newspaper), December 12, 2008
Scores improve if boys and girls are apart, some schools find. This front-page article reports on five Memphis public schools which have adopted single-sex classrooms, with a focus on Booker T. Washington High School. Alisha Kiner, principal at Washington High, shared her findings as a presenter at NASSPE's Fourth International Conference, in October 2008.

Psychology Today, October 18, 2008
In this contribution to Psychology Today, Florida State University Dr. Roy Baumeister asks, Do we need single-sex public schools? His answer: some kids do, other kids don't. So why not make them more widely available -- especially in a country like the USA, which has more than 90,000 public schools? [Editor's note: Professor Baumeister was a keynote speaker at the 2008 NASSPE conference in Memphis, Tennessee. This article includes his reflections on our conference.]

The Times (London, UK)
Girls' schools offer some unique benefits. In this article in the UK's premier newspaper of record, Vicky Tuck, speaking to the Girls' Schools Conference in England, pointed out that the advantages of all-girls education are not limited to strictly academic benefits. She observed that the all-girls format offers a shelter from the storm of "Botox and bingeing [binge-drinking]." She adds: ""I have a hunch that in 50 years time, or maybe only 25, people will be doubled up with laughter when they watch documentaries about the history of education and discover that people once thought it was a good idea to educate adolescent boys and girls together."

Education Week, May 7, 2008
Single-sex education gets new showcase. This feature article highlights the leading role which South Carolina is playing in the growing popularity of single-sex public education, with particular emphasis on the benefits of the gender-separate format for low-income African-American students. Be sure to check out the map of the United States showing which states have how many schools offering single-gender schools.

New York Times, March 2, 2008
Teaching Girls and Boys Separately. This lengthy story for the cover of the New York Times Sunday magazine is a major disappointment, with many distortions and misrepresentations. Click here to read Dr. Sax's detailed rebuttal of the New York Times article.

Chicago Tribune, November 18, 2006
Lead editorial in the Chicago Tribune endorses single-sex public education, correctly observing that the key is choice. Expand the range of choices available to parents within the public schools.

Daytona-Beach News-Journal, November 17, 2006
Florida school leads the nation. The extraordinary success of the single-sex program at Woodward Avenue Elementary School has made headlines in the national media (including USA Today, People and Newsweek magazine, as well as an October 2006 feature on the CBS Evening News). Here's the latest news from Woodward Avenue Elementary.

Vancouver Sun, November 16, 2006
Good news from British Columbia. As a rule, we focus on news from the United States. But this story from north of the border could not be ignored. Note: this article has also appeared in The Province and The Toronto Star.

Boston Globe, October 29, 2006.
All-boys education. Lorraine Garnett Ward was a dean at Wellesley College for twenty years. For the past six years, she has been chair of the English department at an all-boys school. Now taking a leave of absence in order to battle breast cancer, Ms. Ward reflects on all-boys education.

US News & World Report, October 27, 2006
Are single-sex classes legal? This story illustrates some of the opportunities lost by the four-year delay in the release of the new regulations.

USA Today, August 17, 2006:
USA Today endorses single-sex public education . In this editorial, USA Today highlights the success of Woodward Avenue Elementary School in DeLand, Florida. The USA Today editorial emphasizes that single-sex education can benefit both girls and boys, provided that teachers have appropriate training. We agree!

New York Times, Sunday June 11 2006: The Gender Gap at School. New York Times columnist David Brooks has some interesting things to say about the growing gender gapa in academic performance. He suggests that perhaps a more differentiated curriculum might help to engage both girls and boys in reading.

Associated Press, June 9 2006: Single-sex classrooms gaining in popularity. This Associated Press report -- describing the growing popularity of single-sex classrooms in public schools -- appeared in more than fifty newspapers around the United States. The article describes the success of one such program at Martin Luther King Middle School in Atlanta, then goes on to describe other success stories from Florida and from South Carolina.

Dayton Daily News, July 28, 2005: Expert says girls and boys see differently. Dayton Public Schools (Dayton, Ohio) invited NASSPE director Dr. Leonard Sax to come to Dayton to train teachers in best practices for single-sex classrooms, in preparation for that district opening an all-girls school in August 2005 and an all-boys school in August 2006. These schools will be neighborhood public schools, not charter schools.

Education Week, March 2, 2005: The Promise and the Peril of Single-Sex PUBLIC Education: NASSPE Director Leonard Sax observes that it's not sufficient just to put all the girls in one classroom and all the boys in another. " Putting a teacher in a single-sex classroom for which she is not suited by temperament or training may be a recipe for failure," he writes. The key to success in single-sex education is appropriate professional development.

Washington Post, January 8, 2005: “Maryland school segregates to boost learning”: This article about single-gender classes in a public school in suburban Maryland has an interesting twist: one of the teachers for the all-boys classes is an ardent feminist who initially opposed the idea. But her experience leading an all-boys classroom changed her mind. Here’s the link .

Palm Beach Post, January 2, 2005: “Hands up, mischief down: single-sex classes flourish” : this front-page article documents the great success of single-gender classrooms in a public school in Boynton Beach: better academic performance, fewer discipline referrals. Here’s the link.

San Diego Union-Tribune, December 20, 2004: “Benefits, drawbacks seen in gender-separate classes”: Despite the wishy-washy headline, this front-page article documents the great success of single-gender classrooms in a local public high school, particularly for Latino/Latina students. Here’s the link.

In March 2004, the United States Department of Education proposed new regulations governing single-sex public education in the United States. Many newspaper articles followed. We've archived three of these articles:
From the Los Angeles Times: Can Separate Be Equal?
Single-sex classrooms open in Las Vegas
New single-gender opportunities in South Florida