Burman and Booth (2008) searched for brain activation differences by sex that could explain the persistent performance differences on language tasks between boys and girls. Burman and Booth's fMRI study scanned 62 children (50% male) during rhyming and spelling tasks presented in written or verbal form. They concluded that boys and girls were ( Read more... )

Pauline Vu, reporting for Stateline.org, says that the number of public single-sex schools has risen from 5 to 241 in the past decade. Leonard Sax, director of the National Association for Single Sex Public Education and author of Why Gender Matters claims that girls and boys have different learning styles and that these differences can be used ( Read more... )