The author acknowledges that though there are differences between single-sex and coeducational high schools, this doesn't mean that one method is superior to the other and doesn't draw "unilateral conclusions" but tries to find which conditions can from single-sex schools can be transfer to coeducational schools.
2. Tone .
The tone the author uses mostly is optimistic, though the differences between coeducational and single-sex schools are not big the author attempts to elevate the results by expanding their reach "Though generally small, distinctions extend across multiple categories, including self-confidence, political and social activism, life goals, and career orientation" (Sax 2009.) 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." This research also analyzes how the types of schooling affect women's view of college, girls from single-sex high schools tend to value colleges based on the academic reputation and are more likely to be accepted during early admissions.
3. Author's Point of View (POV) .
The researchers behind this study want the audience to know that despite general belief, single-sex education is beneficial for female students. They analyzed data from large sample groups, large enough to actually return useful results to prove single-sex schools effectiveness over their coeducational counterparts. 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' with regard to intellectual self-confidence, compared to 54 percent of their independent coeducational school counterparts" (Sax 2009).
