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From: clambert%hector@Sun.COM (Caroline Lambert [summer intern])
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Subject: Re: Girls' schools
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Date: 27 Jul 88 20:16:01 GMT
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In article <12620@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> jha%lfcs.edinburgh.ac.uk@NSS.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK (Jamie Andrews) 
Trish adds at the end:
>[But how good are the science programs at single sex schools?  At
>the University I'll be teaching at next year, (it was the women's
>campus of the University of North Carolina system till the mid-sixties)
>there isn't even a computer science major.  TR]

For a reason too long and uninteresting to explain, I spent one year in 
a single sex school in England, doing the first year of their 'A' levels.
I majored in physics, chemistry, pure and applied maths. Had I stayed in
England I would have had to take the second year of 'A' levels before
starting university. However, back in Canada the following year I found that
I had already covered half my first year material as an undergrad 
majoring in geophysics.

Maybe that says more about the standard of education in England, but it
did allow me to compare the mixed high school I had attended in Canada
with a single sex one. Out of a class of 800 grade 12 students, there were
3 women in my grade 12 physics class. Out of a class of 60 taking 'A'
levels, there were 6 taking physics. Now, does that say something?

BTW, there were also far more women participating in sports at the
single sex school. No cheerleaders either.

Caroline Lambert
caroline@polya.stanford.edu		clambert@sun.com