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In the past, even the mention of creating a single-gender public school raised controversy with a wide array of opponents, including women's organizations. In 1996, the New York schools created the first all-girl school in the nation, and the controversy still rears its ugly head.The OpponentsOpponents say that single-gender New York schools undercut the students' civil rights by denying them access to the schools. Michael Meyers, head of the New York Coalition, brought suit against the New York schools in 1996, challenging the legality of the Young Women's Leadership School, located in Harlem, but lost the suit. He continues to look for New York schools students denied access to the school because of gender in hopes of bringing another suit, despite the school's successes.Opponents also contend that such schools return New York schools education to the past, where girls major in home economics, rather than mathematics or science. They even charge that if mixed-gender New York schools had the same quality of well-trained and motivated teachers, those children also would excel.Even Sonia Ossorio, New York Chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), believes such New York schools compromise women's past struggles that today allow women to attend once-single-gender schools, ... [more..]

Online tuition has been with us now for a few years yet, in my experience, relatively few people have heard of this form of tutoring or, if they have, dismiss it lightly because of some of the bad press that it has received. The function of this article is to correct a few misinterpretations about online tuition and lessons conducted remotely.My personal experience is as the former director of a national tuition agency - one of the first to introduce internet or online tuition as we called it to the UK. I have also been an online tutor myself, providing intensive day courses in online search engine optimisation and website monetization via our online tuition service. Our tutoring business is now sold and I am retired, therefore I would like to feel that my advice here can be considered impartial.Here are the six main objections to online tuition and my standard responses."I want a human, not a machine" That's exactly what you will get - a human doing the tutoring. You will get the same sort of person over the internet whom you would have got if you had booked a face-to-face lesson."It's a bit ... weird" If that relates ... [more..]