Connecticut: Hamden considering separate boy/girl classes
Hamden-AP, June 9, 2006
The Hamden School District is considering a new strategy to try to bring test scores up. The district wants to set aside separate classrooms for boys and girls starting in third grade. A similar program is paying off in Hartford.

Single-sex classes are common in private schools, but relatively rare in public schools. Hamden is considering it as a way to boost test scores at an underachieving elementary school. The Board of Education will vote on it next week.

At one Hartford middle school that type of program has been available for awhile, and that school's principal says it works.

"We've just seen success story after success story," says Andrew Serrao, principal at Hartford's Lewis Fox Middle School, which for more than a decade has been offering separate programs for boys and for girls to its 7th and 8th grade students. the rest