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co-eduˈcation
[co- 3 a: of U.S. origin.]
Education of the two sexes together in school or college.
1852Pennsylvania School Jrnl. I. 9 Co-education of the sexes. The instruction of males and females in the same room and in the same class is supposed by many to be an evil. 1874E. H. Clarke Sex in Educ. 123 In these pages, co-education of the sexes is used in its common acceptation of identical co-education. 1874S. W. Higginson ibid. 37 Any physiologist opposed to co-education. 1958Daily Express 11 Mar. 7/1 The order says that generally speaking the Vatican does not approve of co-education in Catholic schools, though it realises this might be necessary.
Hence co-eduˈcational a.
1881Williamsport (Pa.) Sun & Banner VIII. No. 3. 1 It is a co-educational school. 1906Daily Chron. 16 Oct. 3/6 The co-educational school reproduces the home at its very best. 1957Times 9 Sept. 11/1 Finding costumes for school plays or chaperoning boys and girls at co-educational school parties..are commonly among the tasks undertaken [by the Parent-Teachers Association]. |