Single-sex education
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Single-sex education, also known as single-gender education or gender-specific education, is the practice of conducting education with male and female students attending separate classes, perhaps in s
Boy students playing the "Eton wall game" at Eton College, Eton, Berkshire, England.
Leonard Sax with high school students in 2009
A girls' school entrance in India
School girls in Iraq
Mixed-sex education
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Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation, is a system of education where female and male students are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was
Single-sex education
…with mass education, coeducation became standard in many places. Increased secularization in the 20th century also contributed to the acceptance of mixed sex education. In 1917 coeducation was mandated in the Soviet Union. According to Cornelius Riordan, "By the end of the nineteenth century, coeducation was all but…
Co-Education by Charles Allan Winter, c. 1915
Oberlin College, the oldest extant mixed-sex institute of higher education in the United States