Last March, as part of the annual Wellesley Debates, two teams of students debated the merits of single-sex education. It was—and it remains—a timely topic, as a recent New York Times article again reminded us.
The Times article reported on a position paper—“The Psuedoscience of Single Sex Education,” which was published in the magazine Science—the gist of which is that K-12 single-sex education is futile and leads to further stereotyping.
From time to time, I am moved to respond publicly to such reports—especially those that are based on subjective views, rather than scientific data. My response, in the form of a letter to the editor, was printed in today’s New York Times.