An analysis of NAPLAN results from across the country’s 304 single-sex schools shows there is another advantage to segregating boys and girls: they both perform slightly better when it comes to academic results.

Associate Professor from the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work at Flinders University David Curtis disagreed, telling Julie-anne Sprague on 6PR’s Afternoons his research suggested single-sex education did not provide higher academic outcomes due to certain biases in the collected data.

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