"The Never-Ending Controversy Over All-Girls Education"

"Pippa Biddle always said she would never attend an all-girls school. She reluctantly agreed to visit Miss Porter’s, an all-girls boarding school in Farmington, Connecticut, as a favor to her mom. But after spending one night at her mom’s former high school, she decided to apply. “Until you experience a single-sex classroom, it is hard to understand how beneficial it is,” Biddle, who’s 21 now, tells me. “I could wake up five minutes before class, pull on clothes, and feel just as beautiful as I would have with full hair and makeup. The value was put on who we were, not what we look like.”'

- The Never-Ending Controversy Over All-Girls Education, The Atlantic

This article is ideal in its analysis of the benefits or lack of benefits of single sex school. It is provides an unbiased analysis of current arguments. But best of all, it point out that there isn't concrete, hard-core science that can prove the benefits or detriments (if any exist) of all female schools. But because of this very aspect it finalizes its article with the question: "Does the fact that researchers can’t ethically conduct such studies mean students shouldn't experience the possible benefits of them?" 

Here is the link to access the entire article, please enjoy!

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/03/the-never-ending-controversy-over-all-girls-education/284508/