Tennessee Districts Implementing Single-Gender Classrooms

The Tennessean (7/11, Hubbard) reports on a number of statistics showing boys trailing girls academically in Tennessee, adding, that according to Middle Tennessee State University professor Martin Kennedy, "too many boys are already mentally checked out of school by the seventh grade." The piece notes that in the past, "single-gender schools in Nashville have been reserved for the religious or wealthy," but "Kennedy, who grew up with 10 brothers and graduated from asingle-gender Catholic high school, wanted to give that choice for public school parents. Boys Prep will open in fall 2012, the city's first all-boys public charter school."