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A sorority at Harvard University has decided to close rather than admit men who claim to be women into their group amid the university's sanctions against single-gender social organizations. In May, Zeta Phi-Cambridge — the Delta Gamma chapter at Harvard — voted to relinquish their charter and thereby shut down, Campus Reform reported Monday. Sanctions from the university came about in December 2017 when new rules were adopted which established that members of single-sex organizations like Zeta Phi were not allowed to hold leadership posts in officially recognized student organizations or be captains of sports teams. The new rules also...

Harvard University moved decisively Friday to turn up the pressure on exclusive, all-male social clubs, barring members from leading campus organizations and sports teams. The new policy, which will take effect for the freshman class in 2017, will also prohibit members of the 14 so-called final clubs, as well as nine fraternities and sororities, from receiving recommendations for prestigious scholarships from undergraduate dean Rakesh Khurana. The restrictions were announced amid a mounting standoff between the elite clubs and college administrators, who say the organizations foster a culture that leads to sexual assault. The administrators say the clubs are antithetical to...

Beginning with the freshman class that enters in fall 2017, Harvard University students will no longer be allowed to hold leadership positions in campus groups while also maintaining membership in the exclusive, single-gender final clubs that dominate the school’s social scene. The new rule, announced Friday morning by President Drew Gilpin Faust and Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana, comes as the school grapples with how to stem sexual assaults and foster an inclusive environment, all while acknowledging the limits of its control over groups that it doesn’t fund or govern directly. The policy barring students from holding leadership positions in...

Absolutely brilliant! Please check my comments below. From today's Wall Street Journal:Why We're Going Back to Single-Sex Dorms Student housing has became a hotbed of reckless drinking and hooking up. By JOHN GARVEY My wife and I have sent five children to college and our youngest just graduated. Like many parents, we encouraged them to study hard and spend time in a country where people don't speak English. Like all parents, we worried about the kind of people they would grow up to be. We may have been a little unusual in thinking it was the college's responsibility to worry...

TAMPA - In a classroom at Phillip Shore Elementary in Ybor City, 22 girls work together. The 5th graders, share ideas, listen to each others' thoughts and generally get along. "They've learned how to have relationships with other girls. Instead of that constant competitiveness, they are really a tight knit family," said Angela Nerti, their teacher. That may not seem like a big deal. But their teacher says in most co-ed classes, girls hold back. "They lose their focus a lot more because they try to impress the boy in the class instead of just focusing on what we're asking...

Separate classes for girls and boys called a winner Ingleside ISD's experience shows improved grades INGLESIDE INGLESIDE — Students at Leon Taylor Junior High School say while there are “no cute faces to look at,” they feel more comfortable participating in classes divided by gender. Educators at the 320-student campus say separating boys and girls this academic year has improved grades and reduced discipline issues. Seventh-grader Leslie Veloz, 13, said she concentrates more in class because of fewer distractions. “Before, boys would try to show off and make us laugh so we didn’t pay attention,” Leslie said. “But now even...

By Maryann Gogniat EidemillerGender Specific The place of all-boys and all-girls schools in the Catholic educational system Dr. Leonard Sax didn't have a very supportive response when a patient in his private practice in Maryland told him that her son's academic performance improved when she placed him in an all-boys Catholic school."I told her that with all due respect, I regarded single-sex education as an antiquated relic," he told Our Sunday Visitor. "She told me, 'With all due respect, you have no idea what you are talking about."Curious, he visited a similar school and was surprised to see that...

Mrs. Demshur's class of second-grade girls sat in a tidy circle and took turns reading poems they had composed. "If I were a toucan, I'd tweet, I'd fly," began one girl. When she finished, the others clapped politely. Down the hall, Mr. Reynolds's second-grade boys read poems aloud from desks facing every direction. A reading specialist walked around with a microphone. "If I were a snow leopard, I would hunt, I would run," began one boy. One classmate did a backbend over his chair as he read. Another crawled on the floor. So went a language arts lesson at Washington...

On an unseasonably cold day last November in Foley, Ala., Colby Royster and Michael Peterson, two students in William Bender’s fourth-grade public-school class, informed me that the class corn snake could eat a rat faster than the class boa constrictor. Bender teaches 26 fourth graders, all boys. Down the hall and around the corner, Michelle Gay teaches 26 fourth-grade girls. The boys like being on their own, they say, because girls don’t appreciate their jokes and think boys are too messy, and are also scared of snakes. The walls of the boys’ classroom are painted blue, the light bulbs emit...

Harvard University has moved to make Muslim women more comfortable in the gym by instituting women-only access times six hours a week to accommodate religious customs that make it difficult for some students to work out in the presence of men. Men have not been allowed to enter the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center during certain times since Jan. 28, after members of the Harvard Islamic Society and the Harvard Women's Center petitioned the university for a more comfortable environment for women. Harvard Islamic Society's Islamic Knowledge Committee officer Ola Aljawhary, a junior, said the women-only hours are being tested on...

ATLANTA -- Students in all of Greene County's regular public schools will be separated by gender starting next fall, a move educators hope will improve rock-bottom test scores and reduce teen pregnancy and discipline rates in the small, rural system. The school board approved the measure last week, drawing vocal protests from some students, parents and community members. It exempts only a charter school, which is public but operates independently from the rest of the system and has a limited attendance zone. School officials say they need drastic change to save the low-performing district from slipping further behind the rest...

Susan Vincent reached into the cage and pulled out a small yellow bird, saying, “This is Kiwi. He loved us, but he was lonely.” It is a lovely spring day in Spanish Harlem on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and Vincent, a former children’s clothing designer turned award-winning high-school science teacher, is explaining some facts about the facts of life. “We had to get Kiwi a mate. It was a perfect way for the girls to learn something about nature, about birds, about”—she smiles, holding little Kiwi up—“about the birds and the bees.” It was, as they say in...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - David Chadwell believes boys and girls can get through the awkward middle school years better when they're separated, learning in classrooms tailored to the learning styles of each gender. As the country's first and only statewide coordinator of single-gender education, Chadwell is helping to make South Carolina a leader among public schools that offer such programs. About 70 schools offer the program now, and the goal is to have programs available to every child within five years, he said. The theory is that by separating girls and boys — especially during middle school years typically marked by...

In an early kickoff to the new school year, Cleveland schools Chief Executive Eugene Sanders hosted a news conference Tuesday that briefly morphed into a fashion show. The district's new uniform policy and next month's opening of five single-gender schools - including the Ginn Academy for high school boys - took center stage. Sanders first rolled out the initiatives last January. "What happens in our school district is critical to the success of this city and critical to the success of our entire community," Sanders told several hundred people, including school district employees and religious and business leaders. Students will...

Some parents want their kids taught in single-sex classrooms. They believe that the presence of the other sex causes distractions that get in the way of education. Other parents disagree. They want their sons and daughters to study together. They think it breeds healthy social interaction and doesn’t impede, and can even enhance, education.  Who is right? They both are: Some kids will do better in a single-sex environment and others will thrive in coeducation. The good news is that we don’t have to agree about the superiority of one educational method over another. Parents, who presumably know their children...

The US is about to start an experiment to quell a gender war over whether schools favor boys or girls. The Education Department will soon issue rules to expand the number of single-sex public schools. But will such segregation really end this debate? In the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, Congress allowed students in failing public schools to have access to different learning situations such as single-sex education. The coming federal regulations are really the result of a debate that began in the 1970s over whether traditional classroom teaching creates low self-esteem for girls. One classic claim has...

Westside seeking a way for both sexes to excel in the classroom By Victor Alvis Dalton Daily Citizen Education will be a lot less “icky” for several Whitfield County students when school resumes this fall. Westside Middle School plans to teach about 175 volunteer students — almost a third of the school — in gender-based classes of either all-girls and all-boys. Several students said they are looking forward to the change. “I wanted to do it so nosy boys will stay out of my business,” said Emma Jones, 13, a rising seventh-grader. “They stink like cologne.” Classmate Kirby Parm has...

There are three gender-segregated sections in any airport: the restrooms, the security pat-down area and the bookstore. In the men’s sections of the bookstore, there are books describing masterly men conquering evil. In the women’s sections there are novels about — well, I guess feelings and stuff. The same separation occurs in the home. Researchers in Britain asked 400 accomplished women and 500 accomplished men to name their favorite novels. The men preferred novels written by men, often revolving around loneliness and alienation. Camus’ The Stranger, Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye and Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five topped the male list. The women...

Chapter only one in Central California with no female members Merced resident Michele Arancibia applied for membership to the service organization in March, but was rejected following an April 6 vote. Arancibia and several Elks members say her gender is all that kept her out of the club, located at 1910 M St. "I realize that there are a lot of old-timers out there," said the 55-year-old Arancibia. "But I didn't think it was still like this. It's sad, really." The controversy over Arancibia's recent bid for membership began prior to the election when a current Elks member reportedly made...

Arrowhead hopes boys would learn, behave better Town of Merton - There are differences between Brady Steinbach's technical education class and the other courses he takes as a freshman at Arrowhead High School. More work gets done in that class, for one. It also just happens to be all boys. Steinbach's experience in technical education happened by chance. But Arrowhead administrators, concerned about the academic and behavioral problems confronting some of their male students, are exploring whether to try single-sex classes in other subject areas. They are slated to ask the School Board tonight to take the first step toward...