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Single-Sex Education and the Popular Neuroscience of Sex Difference
2016
Overview
In 2001, a bipartisan coalition of U.S. senators persuaded their congressional colleagues to provide federal funding for experimental single-sex initiatives in K—12 public schools. Once federal funding became available, new voices emerged in the campaign to promote single-sex initiatives. As this chapter describes, advocates heralding recent scientific evidence purporting to prove that boys’ brains and girls’ brains are “hardwired” to learn differently became highly influential in designing new singlesex public schooling initiatives. While proclaiming essential sex diff erences to be the primary justification for sex-separate educational approaches, these advocates also pointed to the education crisis facing boys of color
