b'The Benefits of Co-EducationFor decades, research, theory and anecdotal While some schools narratives have claimed that schools and society are failing either girls or boys. Opinion has also swung on the merits of single-sexmay be better than and co-ed education. Our review of the research data is that it is decidedly mixed;others and while some that is, the research shows that neitherpupils may do better in single-sex nor co-ed schools do a better job of educating girls or boys. Indeed, it isa single-sex or mixedconcluded in a leading U.K. study (Robinson and Smithers, 2010) that it is not possibleenvironment there is no to claim that all girls or boys, under anygeneral rule that can be conditions and at any time, would do better in one or other type of schooling. The sameattached to separating or bringing together the sexes for their secondary education. (Robinson and Smithers, 2010)basic conclusion was reached in a U.S. meta-analysis on the topic published in 2014 (Pahlke, Hyde and Allison).The Strategic Counsel, a Canadian market research firm, surveyed 17,798 students and grads from Canadian high schools.'