By Antonio Planas
Las Vegas Review-Journal
January 8, 2007
Mannion Middle School teacher Stephanie Luiere began an experiment last school year that separated boys and girls in the remedial English class she teaches.
Luiere said the three-month trial run paid dividends, even though at one point, so few girls were involved she had to make the class exclusively for boys.
"Every student passed," she said. "Some of them by a narrow margin, but everyone passed."
Luiere is continuing her teaching strategy of separating the genders this school year. She is teaching one class to a group of 10 boys and another to a group of 11 girls.
"This year, the achievement by the kids is much higher," Luiere said, noting that the class grade average hovers around 75 percent.
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