for whatever they can try that will im- prove things, and this is just an easy fix — except that it doesn’t really fix any of the problems,” says Lenora Lapidus, director of the ACLU Women’s Rights Project. The ACLU has challenged two single-sex schools or classes legally since 2006 — none in the Washington area. Both cases are making their way through the courts. “Why not go with what we know
works? Smaller classes, more resources, better-trained teachers and a variety of teaching methods, because the fact is that every child learns differently,” Lapi- dus says. Imagine Southeast had its share of
staffing and instructional challenges this year. Evaluators from the District’s Charter School Board commended Imagine in most areas of its annual re- view this year. The assessment team, which examined all of the classrooms, noted “inconsistent approaches to be- havior management” and also observed a “mixed application of single-gender strategies in the classrooms.” Scott, the principal, says she doesn’t
recall the team being concerned about behavior management, other than pos- sibly noting “that maybe our procedures were somewhat different from class to class.” She says the school is working to incorporate single-gender strategies into everyday activities. Scott describes the past school year
as “tougher than the first year.” She says staffing problems also disrupted several classes. One teacher was asked to leave, another left voluntarily, and the original first-grade boys’ teacher was promoted to the administration. That promotion left Ahmad unex-
pectedly in charge of a classroom full of rambunctious boys. An energetic young woman, comfortable in jeans and a po- nytail, Ahmad appears at ease among her students and employs many strate- gies that researchers say work well for boys. But her lack of experience some- times seems to leave her at a loss when things edge toward chaos. Ahmad’s class is as lively as ever one
morning in May as the boys finish an art project, gluing colored tissue paper squares to glass bottles, making a vase for Mother’s Day. Michael Jackson’s “Beat
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