Article: A Classroom Of Their Own.(Jefferson Middle School, in Long Beach, California, tries single-gender classes)

EVERY FALL, SIXTH-, SEVENTH-, and eighth-grade students in Long Beach, Calif., dust off their backpacks and head for Jefferson Middle School. When the bell rang on Sept. 8 to signal the beginning of classes this year, however, things did not proceed as usual. Instead of male and female students going to classes together, all the boys went to certain classrooms while the girls went to separate classrooms.

Jefferson Middle School is trying something new in hopes of improving student academic performance. Jefferson is the first public school in California to hold entirely separate classes for its 1,100 male and female students. The only class where the genders ...

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