Gender & Brain Development

We wrote on Tuesday about the increase two CTD program coordinators, Vicky Blanas and Amy Gyarmathy, observed in girls' enrollment in female-only technology courses and their success in those courses. Their study addressed differences as related to technology education. As a follow up, we are providing an article on new brain-science research about the development of girls' and boys' brains: The Wall Street Journal:"As Little Girls and Boys Grow, They Think Alike." "Although boys' and girls' brains show differences around age 10, during puberty key parts of their brains become more similar, according to recent government research. And, rather than growing more slowly, boys' brains instead are simply developing differently," writes Avery Johnson. What are your thoughts on these studies as they relate to education? Has your gifted student benefited from a single-sex classroom?