Single-sex education is ineffective‚ misguided and may actually increase gender stereotyping‚ a paper to be published Friday asserts. The report‚ “The Pseudoscience of Single Sex Schooling‚” to be published in Science magazine by eight social scientists who are founders of the nonprofit American Council for CoEducational Schooling‚ is likely to ignite a new round of debate and legal wrangling about the effects of single-sex education. It asserts that “sex-segregated education is deeply misguided
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Reflection on “The Danger of a Single Story” By Chimamanda Adichie Why this all fuss about a “single story”? So what is a single story? Does this mean manipulation of ‘a single story’ by countless re-telling and thus creating an ‘entrenched’ view in our minds which we fail to challenge and investigate with a forward-looking vision? No wonder‚ this leads to a lot of assumptions‚ half-truths and stereotypes when this story is passed on from one to another. For example a lot of people think
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SINGLE SEX SCHOOLS Once again‚ the public sector seems to be following the lead of the private sector. This time‚ it is the concept of Single Sex education as a viable option for some kids‚ which has caused those within public education to sit up and take note. Coed Education has been a basic foundation dogma in public education throughout the 20th century. It was based on the firmly held conviction that in educating boys and girls‚ separate cannot be equal. In recent years‚ the only exception
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Single Sex Education Think about how much better a sixteen year old high school boy would do in his schoolwork if he wasn’t distracted by all of the dazzling young women surrounding him. The same applies to a young woman whom is trying to be studious‚ when she is constantly being bother by immature high school males. There are many very beneficial aspects of single-sex education. The issue is slowly becoming a nation wide epidemic. Many large cities around the country have adopted single sex
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Single storying is when someone puts one thing they know about you or they think they know about you has your entire persona. When people do this they are looking at you with a limited viewpoint. Single storying someone is hurtful because it is putting someone in a box based on limited information. Although single storying someone is unethical it is easy to accidentally do it without thinking. Most people in their life have been single storied and have single storied someone at some time‚ probably
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Being Single or Being Married Is it better to be married or single? I suppose this subject is often discussed in today’s world. Couples do not hurry to go to the Registrar’s office. Before swearing an oath before the altar‚ lovers prefer to live in civil marriage. It helps to clear up the needs‚ duties and difficulties. Once my friend’s 9-year-old niece said that «It’s better for girls to be single‚ but not for boys. Boys need somebody to clean up after them». Living the single life can be dramatically
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represents one that is slowly deteoriating and the question is why? One causable factor is the breakdown of the family structure. One reason is that of single – parenting. The socio- economic effects based on research‚ is not only detrimental to the individual but to the society and wider community at large that experiences the phenomenon Single parenthood experienced by citizens in Trinidad may be the caused by many factors. “The dynamic character of the family structure has an impact on a host
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powerful quotes from The Danger of a Single Story that made me rethink how I will consider a story in the future: - “So that is how to create a single story‚ show a people as one thing‚ as only one thing‚ over and over again‚ and that is what they become. “ - “The single story creates stereotypes‚ and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue‚ but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” - “The consequence of the single story is this: It robs people of
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1080/10502550902970587 This article discusses the challenges that family members face when encountered with divorce‚ particularly in relation to the major transformations that occur. The article also focuses on two theoretical perspectives to include solution-focused therapy and structural family therapy. Authors chose to center attention on low-conflict divorce in that its effects are more impactful to members. The article gave a detailed breakdown of both therapy models and also explanation
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Single-Sex Schools: More Beneficial than a Parent May Think Single-sex education‚ also known as single-gender education‚ is the practice of conducting education where male and females students attend separate classes or in separate buildings or schools. It has been a topic of debate especially for parents who have to think about where to send their children to school. There are many reasons and evidence to suggest that single sex schools are more beneficial. They provide students
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