Without social experimentation in some form or other we are condemed to the dark ages where suspicion of anything new or different was an anathma. If this means we give the single gender classroom a go for a set time, so be it. I think it has been researched and proven that smaller class sizes go a long way to improving children's quality of education. What's the big secret some people are scared of missing out on. The rivalry between those who support feminism and those who do not proceeded that report by decades.
Enough misinformation is out there as it is.
Gilligan's research did not trigger the discussions either. She was proceeded by other researchers who were looking at ethics long before her time. They were no more responsible than were those who chose to miscast what was being saidto suit their own political agenda. Sarah Stewart Taylor is a free-lance writer in Washington, D.C., also reporting on New England. Copyright 2000 Women's Enews.