Single-Sex High Schools

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This research proposal addresses the impact that single-sex high schools have on those who attend them. The proposal includes a discussion about the problems associated with single-sex schools, as well as an examination of single-sex schools and co-ed schools. The paper examines the consequences of attending a single-sex high school and then moves on to a co-ed college in terms of academic, relationship, and human nature issues. The paper also discusses some of the drawbacks expected from attending a single-sex school and asks what the outcomes of those assumptions are. Relevant literature is reviewed and a method of study is proposed.

From the Paper:

"When students enter college they are expected to have both the experience and maturity to handle the venture. Students are expected to be able to interact with many different types of people from both genders. They are expected to understand how to have a platonic relationship with the opposite sex so that teams, projects and other things can be fully experienced by all of the students. It is presumed that attending coed schools leading up to the college years will prepare the students for the college experience. During high school students get crushes, learn to study with and participate in class activities with the opposite sex and generally by the time they attend college they have moved past the giggly girls of middle school or the boys who become tongue tied when faced with female companionship."

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