In a recent article, Professor Alison Booth writes about the benefits of a single-sex education for girls. She argues that "the evidence is gathering that women in single-geneder classes benefit, and they benefit significantly (Booth, 2014)." Alison Booth is Professor of Economics at the Australian National University, and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, the IZA Bonn, and the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nürnberg and an advocate for the support of publicly funded single-sex schools for girls. Her research is intriguing and supports our practices.
And Professor Booth is not alone in her convictions. In 2006, the US federal government allowed districts to create single‐sex schools and have single‐sex classes in publicly funded schools. According to the National Association for Choice in Education (NACE), in 2002 there were only about a dozen US public schools offering single‐sex classes and by 2012 there were well over 500 hundred.
