The pseudoscience of single-sex education

This research is a challenge to popular belief:

"No, the studies don’t show that girls’ schools are better for girls. But they’re sure great at perpetuating sexist attitudes. ... Together with six co-authors, we recently published a peer-reviewed article in the journal Science, “The Pseudoscience of Single-Sex Education,”... It’s a provocative title, but our paper supported it with three lines of evidence."

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2011/10/the_single_sex_school_myth_an_overwhelming_body_of_research_show.html