coeducation
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Origin of 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
“What was happening in America was that young people were seeing authority and saying to them, ‘you’re wrong,’ ” said Henry “Sam” Chauncey, a former Yale administrator who helped lead the charge toward coeducation.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 14, 2018
Dr. Bowen was named provost in 1967 during a tumultuous transition to coeducation under Robert F. Goheen, the president at the time.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2016
The preceding survey has shown how in coeducation a woman’s study is carried on inside a man’s college, 335 in the women’s college outside it, in the annex beside it.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Alice Freeman Palmer
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