PDF file of this article available: This article has been retrieved times since June 17, 2004 Volume 12 Number 28 June 17, 2004 ISSN 1068-2341 Gender-Segregated Education in … Sex-Segregated Education on Trial Today. The Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights has been clear that transgender and gender nonconforming students are entitled to protection from sex-based discrimination under Title IX. This article examines the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's gender-segregated higher education system and how it is used to transmit the Kingdom's traditional societal expectations to the employment sector. Gender segregation in the education systems has been the norm in the UAE public school, where boys and girls learn from different classes. Sex-segregated education goes in the wrong direction, by diminishing real diversity in education. After Title IX was passed in 1972, there was a decline in single-sex education even in private K-12 schools and colleges. Wood County Board of Education argues that the mandated sex-segregated education practices of Van Devender Middle School in Parkersburg, West Virginia violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause as well as Title IX. Initiative for Gender Segregated Higher Education Puts Universities on the Defensive . Likewise, research into gender-segregated education in general, let alone the controversial teaching methods promoted by the SSPE movement, has been inconclusive. While single-sex education has long existed in many private schools, it’s a relatively new option for public schools. An initiative for gender-segregated tracks at universities is gaining momentum among the religious Zionist movement, but the academic authorities are vehemently opposed. Single-sex education (teaching boys and girls in separate classrooms or schools) is an old approach that’s gaining new momentum. For more information about sex segregation in public schools, contact the ACLU Women's Rights Project: 125 Broad Street, 18 th Fl. The boys and girls even have different hours with which they learn. This is dangerous. Education by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation and are permanently archived in Resources in Education. Through observation, Thorne & Luria (1986) explore the segregated gender arrangements of middle childhood as contexts for learning adolescent and adult sexual scripts. 01:26 : This is dangerous for children and dangerous for society overall. 04/26/2010 05:12 am ET Updated May 25, 2011 Today, the first-ever court hearing over sex-segregated classes in coed public schools begins in a federal court in Lafayette, Louisiana. It had been the case since the beginning of education in the UAE in 1972. 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