Single Gender Schools prosper…

Sanad Learning Center plans to have single gender classrooms. Here is a great article in the Herald about the positive effects of this model.

Single-sex schools prosper — if you can get kids to go

Five years ago, the school gave parents a choice: Enroll your kid in a single-gender or co-ed classroom. A team from Stetson University studied how the fourth-grade students fared on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test in writing.

In the co-ed classrooms, 59 percent of girls passed the FCAT. In the single-gender classrooms, the number was 75 percent.

The split was even wider for boys. In co-ed classrooms, 37 percent of boys earned passing scores. In single-gender classrooms: 86 percent.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/12/11/v-fullstory/1969567/single-sex-schools-prosper-if.html#ixzz17wObUqLl