The College Board's Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SAT) declined from 1963 to 1980, with average verbal scores falling over 50 points and average mathematics scores dropping nearly 40 points. ... George Westinghouse High School in New York initiated a quality improvement process that decreased the dropout rate from 7.8 percent to 5.3 percent compared to the district average of 17.2% despite losing 21.2% of its faculty, an example of TQM applied to an urban, primarily minority school (Siegel and Byrne, 1994 pg. 16). ...

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The article shows an objective tone when hard facts are brought up "SAT composite scores (Verbal plus Math) are 43 points higher for single-sex graduates within the independent school sector, and 28 points higher for single-sex alumnae in the Catholic school sector.... The author provides hard evidence to demonstrate the effects of single-sex education not only academically but in many other aspects of the female student's life "Nearly 60 percent of women graduates of independent single-sex schools rate themselves 'above average' or in the 'highest 10 percent&#x...

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