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Section: BLOGS of the Week WHY BOYS FAIL The first-ever court hearing over sex-segregated classes in coed public schools began in a federal court in Lafayette, La., last week, featuring arguments from feminists, who have long opposed single-sex education. My favorite phony argument is pointing to the federal survey of all single-sex programs, which concluded that on average they work no better than coed classes. That's like the federal survey of charter schools the unions always embraced that shows that, on average, charters work no better than traditional schools. True, but what about the roughly 300 elite charters that daily hit home runs for inner-city kids? There is a case to be made against single-sex education, but discrimination against girls isn't the real issue. In fact, girls appear to be benefiting more from it than boys. The real issue is whether schools are carrying out their programs effectively. How could they? The U.S. Department of Education has offered no research on what works and doesn't work with single-sex education. If I had to pick an entity to sue, I'd go after the Department of Education.

By Richard Whitmire

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