Dr Leonard Sax, the founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Single Sex Public Education, even claims a neurological reason for his cause: girls and boys mature at different rates, so they need different teaching methods.The arguments against single-sex education come primarily from civil-rights and women's groups who oppose publicly-funded segregation on principle.
Liberal judges have ended racial segregation, recognized the principle of "one person, one vote," prohibited censorship of the Pentagon Papers and upheld the right to due process, even at Guantánamo Bay.
In neuroscience, the notion has emerged that the brain abides by two principles: segregation and integration.
From first principles, segregation could be considered to be mediated by adaptation to the ongoing background statistics and detection of the figure as a deviation from this established pattern.
Our discussion refers to the general principle of segregation, although it will be an important research endeavor to examine which specific dimensions of segregation are related to environmental health disparities.
His reference was to the landmark 1954 decision of the United States Supreme Court rejecting the basic principle of segregation, "separate but equal," in education for black Americans.
The Mendelian principle of segregation, for instance, is a law describing a phenomenon occurring in all sexually reproducing organisms, not just a token phenomenon, so this general principle covering various lower level realizations would have to be explained/deduced molecularly.
Why is it that our government has no outrage towards this insidious form of segregation, while the same principle applied to public education or fire protection services would be decried as evil?
Mendel's principles of segregation and assortment coupled with studies on the fruit fly Drosophila provided a powerful foundation upon which the new science of genetics was built.
