coeducation
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When kids of all genders attend school together, it's called coeducation. Before the 19th century, all-girl and all-boy schools were much more common than coeducation. Coeducation is the norm in Western countries, where single-sex schools are the exception to the rule. In majority Muslim countries, it’s far more common to have separate schools for boys and girls. A British school, Archbishop Tenison's Church of England High School, is the oldest known school to embrace coeducation, admitting both girls and boys when it opened in 1714. Coeducation dates from the 1850s, adding the prefix co- ("together") to education.
Vocabulary lists containing coeducation
co-, col-
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“I believe in coeducation and I don’t see a logical reason for separation,” said Shah Kpalwakh, 35, a journalism professor who studied at the university after Taliban rule.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 29, 2021
Laurie Saxton, a 1978 graduate who is now director of news and public relations at Sewanee, said even though the admission of women was controversial, her research shows the “clamor for coeducation was resounding.”
From Washington Times • Oct. 13, 2019
The shift toward coeducation did not look the same across the Ivy League.
From Washington Post • Nov. 14, 2018
As the university’s provost in the late 1960s, in charge of academic and budgetary matters, he was a principal architect of plans to introduce coeducation to the previously all-male Ivy League campus.
From Washington Post • Oct. 22, 2016
To the charges that the character of college work has been lowered by coeducation, and that it offers difficulties or embarrassments in the class-room, Dr. Jordan replies with categorical denials.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 by Various
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