To convert a school or educational system into one that educates male and female students together; to implement coeducation.
From coeducational + -ize (a suffix forming verbs meaning to cause to be or to subject to). This verb form emerged as institutions began transitioning to mixed-gender education.
Many prestigious all-boys and all-girls schools decided to 'coeducationalize' in the 1960s-1980s, and those decisions were often hotly debated, revealing how deeply tied educational identity was (and is) to gender.
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