coeducation
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Etymology
Origin of coeducation
Explanation
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
Some 750 women from nearby colleges descended on Yale, lived “in dorm rooms vacated by obliging Yale students,” attended classes, and participated in forums and panels on coeducation.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2019
Sewanee’s vice chancellor, some in the administration and some male students were against admitting women, but the university board of trustees voted in June 1968 in favor of expanding to a coeducation.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2019
It seemed natural when Yale turned to Ms. Lin in the late 1980s to mark the 20th anniversary of coeducation at Yale after nearly two centuries of being all male.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2017
Mixed—Because it favors the coeducation of the sexes in a constant, fraternal, familiar company of children, boys and girls, which gives to the character of their manners a special earnestness.
From Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Goldman, Emma
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