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- Girls Boarding Schools
Would a girls boarding school be right for your daughter? Learn about the benefits of traditional schools and specialized boarding schools for girls, such as programs that specialize in learning disabilities, Asperger's syndrome, oppositional defiance, and substance abuse issues.
- Girls Learn Differently
More and more research is showing that students achieve and learn better in single-sex schools. A twenty-year Australian study found that both boys and girls performed better on standardized tests when they went to separate schools and a British study showed that while boys at the lowest ends academically improved the most in single sex schools, nearly every girl regardless of her ability or socio-economic status performed better in single sex classrooms than co-ed ones.
- National Assoc for Single Sex Public Education
Spend a few minutes to look over the evidence, pro and con, regarding single-sex education. Start with some very basic, but often overlooked, facts about girls and boys including the fact that brains of girls and boys differ in important ways; girls and boys have different learning styles; and how single-sex schools offer unique educational opportunities for girls, and for boys.
