Single-sex schools have much to offer in the 21st century

Greg Cudmore

By Greg Cudmore
Community contribution / October 16, 2017

The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) has sounded the death knell for Australian single-sex schools which it predicts will disappear in the next 20 years.

An analysis of NAPLAN results revealed no significant advantage for parents who send their children to single-sex schools.

The OECD ...

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Greg Cudmore is a retired teacher with 45 years experience working in Australian Schools. He recently published 'Even More Elephants in our Classrooms (2026) ' (amazon.com), the third in his 'Elephants in the Classroom' trilogy, which critiques contemporary Australian education, a primer for aspiring and practising teachers and for those, like Mark Twain, who never let schooling interfere with their education.

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