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Because Freedom Can’t Protect Itself
“Teach Kids, Not Stereotypes”
Findings from ACLU’s Campaign to Stop
Single-Sex Education Based on Gender
Stereotypes
in Public Schools
NCWGE Webinar
January 28, 2015
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“Teach Kids, Not Stereotypes”
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ACLU findings and report to OCR
� Lacked justification/had
shoddy/illegal justification
� Involuntary or “opt-out”
� Lacked substantially equal
coed alternative
� Failure to conduct required
evaluations
� Premised on “hardwired” difference theory
� Stereotypes prevalent
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Theory of “hardwired” brain difference
Leonard Sax training produced in response to ACLU records request
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Theory of biological differences
Leonard Sax training produced in response to ACLU records request
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Brain difference learning difference
Stetson University, Nina Hollis Institute, “Why Single Gender Classes?”
(teacher training presentation)
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Debunking “hardwired” difference
� Boys and girls brains are
more similar than different
� Differences among boys
and among girls are more
significant than differences
between boys and girls
� Brain “Plasticity”
� Physiological differences
make no pedagogical
difference
Lise Eliot, Pink Brain, Blue Brain (2010)
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Debunking “hardwired” difference
Lise Eliot, Pink Brain, Blue Brain (2010)
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“Gender-based” strategies in action
School Board presentation produced in response to ACLU public records request
Wood County, WV
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Different classroom environments
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“[W]hen [boys] look each other in the eye it becomes more of a confrontational type thing. Girls . . . sit around tables, where they can make eye contact, where they can make relationships, and that sort of thing.”
SteveTaylor, Principal, Van Devender Middle School, Wood County, WV
Different classroom environments
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Biased outreach materials
Boys: “Fostering
respect and instilling
the characteristics
associated with
“becoming a man”
Girls: “Fostering a
sense of ‘girl power’
and promoting girls
helping girls”
Flyer produced in response to ACLU records request
Volusia County, FL
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“Gender-based” teacher trainings
Teacher training presentation produced in response to ACLU records request
Volusia County, FL
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“Gender-based” teacher trainings
Teacher training presentation produced in response to ACLU records request
Volusia County, FL
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ACLU litigation & OCR complaints
� Litigation:
• Doe v. Vermilion Parish (LA)
• Doe v. Wood County School Board (WV)
• A.N.A. v. Breckinridge (KY)
� OCR complaints:
• Florida: Hillsborough, Volusia, Hernando, Broward
• Texas: Austin
• Idaho: Middleton Heights
• Wisconsin: Barron, Beloit
• Alabama: Birmingham
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Contact information & resources
� ACLU Home Page, “Teach Kids, Not Stereotypes”
https://www.aclu.org/womens-rights/teach-kids-not-
stereotypes
� ED Regulation on nondiscrimination on access to
classes and schools:
https://www2.ed.gov/policy/rights/reg/ocr/edlite-
34cfr106.html
� ED Q&A on single-sex classrooms:
http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/faqs-title-
ix-single-sex-201412.pdf
� Galen Sherwin, [email protected]
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www.aclu.org
Because Freedom Can’t Protect Itself