Talbot is against sex-segregated classrooms:
What has changed since the nineties is the notion of who single-sex education is supposed to help most. In the nineties, it was girls. … Increasingly, girls have been besting boys’ performance across the board: G.P.A.s, school leadership, graduation rates, college attendance. Now segregation by gender is more often an intervention for boys—a switch in target that makes you wonder a little about the reliability of the justifications for the policy.
The Dish 