The purpose of the quantitative, quasi-experimental design was to examine if single-gender classes will help increase test scores in math for African American male students in a public school setting. The literature disclosed that a problem in elementary schools is that African American male students have difficulty in mathematics. The National…

Opportunity to learn via public education has origins in the mid-nineteenth-century as a response to Horace Mann's argument that educating girls as well as boys would build a collectively more prosperous society. Over the years, educational reform through the judicial and legislative branches of government has continued to balance opportunity to…