The AAUW Educational Foundation will not be specifically advocating sex segregation, as it devotes its resources to ensuring quality public education, where more than 90 percent of U.S. students are schooled. Separation by sex is found almost exclusively in private schools. Maggie Ford points out that educators can learn from the conditions and practices that have contributed to the success of single-sex schools. The AAUW Educational Foundation, for example, will concentrate on ways to transpose those qualities to coeducational institutions to improve gender equity in public schools. It does not plan to deny grants and fellowships, such as the Eleanor Roosevelt Teacher Fellowships , to teachers employing single-sex strategies, however.
Parents have to decide what is best for their children.