Single-Gender Classes at Carver High School

In the Chronicle, reporter Layla Garms writes about a single-gender class at Carver High School taught by Daniel Piggott Jr.

Garms describes his Common Core algebra class “as a boys’ club, and that’s the way Piggott likes it. Piggott led the charge to implement single gender classes at Carver High School in the 2012-13 school year. The Carver alumnus currently teaches three sections of algebra to freshmen males.”

Another Carver teacher, Charita Ward, leads all-female classes, while a third instructor is charged with mixed gender groups, Garms writes.

“This has been a pleasant experience,” Piggot told Garms. “I remember being a young man in these same halls at Carver High School, so I see a lot of myself when I see them, and it allows us a lot of opportunities to talk about things other than math. You can just talk about being a minority male in the United States of America.”

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