{"id":3878,"date":"2019-05-22T06:31:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T06:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brighterchoice.org\/?page_id=3878"},"modified":"2022-02-01T11:57:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T16:57:33","slug":"why-single-gender","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.brighterchoice.org\/?page_id=3878","title":{"rendered":"Why Single Gender"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column]<div class=\"templatera_shortcode\"><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid call-to-action-fixed vc_custom_1643732141448\" style=\"background-color:#007ec7\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_raw_code wpb_content_element wpb_raw_html\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"eltdf-call-to-action-holder  eltdf-normal-layout eltdf-content-in-grid eltdf-three-quarters-columns\">\n\t<div class=\"eltdf-cta-inner eltdf-grid\">\n\t\t<div class=\"eltdf-cta-text-holder\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"eltdf-cta-text\">\n                            <h3>Enroll for the upcoming school year<\/h3>\n                            <p>Tuition Free. Transportation from Albany, Cohoes, Schenectady, Troy and more.<\/p>\n                        <\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"eltdf-cta-button-holder\">\n\t            <div class=\"eltdf-cta-button\">\n                        <a itemprop=\"url\" href=\"\/?page_id=8921\" target=\"_self\" class=\"eltdf-btn eltdf-btn-medium eltdf-btn-solid eltdf-btn-arrow\">\n                            <span class=\"eltdf-btn-text\">Apply Now<\/span>\n                        <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1643734651535{padding-top: 52px !important;padding-bottom: 60px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text]Historically, single-gender education in Albany was limited largely to those who could afford to attend top-performing private academies.\u00a0 It was the desire of the founders of Brighter Choice to provide the same opportunities to those who may not be able to afford a private education by offering single-gender education at the public level.<\/p>\n<p>Much research has been conducted regarding single-gender education.\u00a0 Cornelius Riordan, an educational researcher and associate professor of sociology at Providence College, offered the following as possible rationales to explain the positive effects of single-gender schools:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A greater degree of order and control<\/li>\n<li>The provision of more successful role models<\/li>\n<li>A reduction of gender differences in curriculum and opportunities<\/li>\n<li>A reduction of gender bias in teacher-student interaction<\/li>\n<li>The provision of a greater number of leadership opportunities<\/li>\n<li>A pro-academic parent\/student choice, which is required by single gender schools.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Enroll for the upcoming school year Tuition Free. Transportation from Albany, Cohoes, Schenectady, Troy and more. Apply Now Historically, single-gender education in Albany was limited largely to those who could afford to attend top-performing private academies.\u00a0 It was the desire of the founders of Brighter Choice to provide the same opportunities to those who may not [...]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3878","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brighterchoice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brighterchoice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brighterchoice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brighterchoice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brighterchoice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brighterchoice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9033,"href":"https:\/\/www.brighterchoice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3878\/revisions\/9033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brighterchoice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}