Single-gender schools can help students get a better education and a better learning environment. This form of educational institution helps students to concentrate on their studies without the distractions of the other kind. Historical data from Harvard University and other institutions suggests that single-gender schools are more beneficial to students' education than coeducational schools. (David Tyack and Elizabeth Hanslot, pg.14) Coeducational schools distract students from getting the most out of their education. Students are distracted from the other gender, due to examples such as sexual harassment and inappropriate student appearance and dress code. Single-sex schools can help teachers tailor their teaching to a specific gender, rather than generalizing it to please both genders. While co-ed schools can help students be interactive with the other gender, single-gender schools can be more beneficial to students' education. Many people don't know that single-sex schools actually came into being before co-educational schools. Usually only boys went to school, while girls stayed at home and worked. In the seventeenth century, male-dominated Massachusetts believed that girls should not be allowed to attend public school. Massachusetts is also home to Harvard University, which at the time admitted only men. (David Tyack and Elizabeth Hanslot, age 13) Harvard didn't begin accepting applications from women until the late 1970s. Most colleges became coeducational, but that didn't happen until the late 1990s. Some colleges like Yale and Princeton did not become co-educational until 1969. (“History of Coeducation,” par....... mid-article ...... can encourage students to collaborate with each other gender, sex-segregated schools can further benefit students' education. The merits of sex-segregated schools include single-gender-focused classrooms, an environment free of sexual harassment, and a place where students can focus on school and not. on their interview appearance with Vanessa Vogel, she said: “I think that in schools like mine [single-gender] students are not afraid to ask questions that they might be embarrassed to ask in front of the opposite sex more subject specific. This is especially useful in compulsory classes such as health)