In part, Renn concludes that "the decision to attend a women's college or university is for many students a decision not to attend a
coeducational one."
The countries around the world have various combinations and sequences of separate and
coeducational schools i.e.
Activity levels in
coeducational or single-sex physical education classes.
In addition, many elite institutions had already become
coeducational prior to the late 1960s, or were founded as such, including Brown, Cornell, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, and the University of Chicago.
An account of these studies is available in "Single Sex versus
Coeducational Schooling: A Systematic Review" (Mael, Alonso, Gibson, Rogers and Smith, 2005)
Research has also indicated that this is particularly true among adolescent females in
coeducational physical education classes (Hannon& Ratliffe; Osborne, et al.
As Emily Martin, deputy director of the ACLU's Women's Rights Project, wrote in a press release: "Sex segregation leaves students less prepared for success in a
coeducational world.
King Mohammed VI dedicated, here Monday, a vocational training centre and a
coeducational social complex carried out by the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity for a total cost of MAD14,770,000.a The sovereign visited the facilities of the
coeducational centre, which can accommodate up to 270 people.
"By contrast, there was essentially no gender gap in the percent of students experiencing teacher absence in
coeducational private schools."
Interested schools must have an "important objective," like improving the educational attainment of students; provide a "substantially equal
coeducational class" in the same subject; make student enrollment in a single-sex class completely voluntary; and re-evaluate their single-sex programs every two years.
A more logical place to look for the inspiration behind the "strong-minded and independent" New Woman, Hunter argues, is in the much greater numbers of girls who graduated from
coeducational high schools.