Or, as the researchers put it: "The gain for females from school or classroom gender segregation is offset by the loss for males".
In 1976 the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in McNeal v. Tate that school districts under a Fourteenth Amendment legal obligation to desegregate could not employ ability grouping if it resulted in significant levels of building, classroom, or course segregation, unless districts could demonstrate that grouping assignments did not reflect the present results of past segregation.
If you don't mix in the classroom, if you have segregation in the classroom, isn't that part of the immorality that you now describe and for which you apologised?
In addition, there was clear evidence of segregation with separate classrooms for boys and girls - and pupils being taught a narrow curriculum that was failing to prepare them for life in modern Britain.
B1 WEEKEND E1-28; E29-38 EDUCATION A Return to Segregation A Harvard study said classrooms grew more segregated in the 1990's, reversing desegregation gains from the civil rights era and undermining educational prospects for black and Hispanic children.
The Yonkers branch of the N.A.A.C.P. will hold a demonstration in front of Yonkers City Hall on Thursday at 6 30 p.m. to protest inadequate busing, overcrowded classrooms, failing students and vestiges of segregation, said Julie Weiner, a spokeswoman for the organization.
"This meeting was not carried out in a religious setting, but in a classroom," said Wilshaw, who warned that such segregation flouts the requirement to promote fundamental British values in schools.
She insists that the real problems afflicting our schools--poverty and segregation--are outside the classroom and that every effort to improve schools has not worked.
She worked with the New York City Board of Education to end the segregation of blind children in separate classrooms and to introduce Braille teaching materials, and she founded a magazine, Searchlight, for children.
Because of Wahhabi strictures on segregation, I found female students in a classroom where they watch their male professor on a television set -- or rather watch part of him, his arm writing lessons on a board.
