NY Times and gender differences in learning

This weeks Sunday Times magazine caught my eye because its cover story was, “ Should Boys and Girls Be Taught Separately.” I went to an all boys yeshiva and live in an all man’s world. As most know, the right wing orthodox Jewish world believes in separate education and roles for men and women. Now the NY Times is considering it too.(Well I exaggerate but you get the point.)
The main point of the story is that there are a small number of single sex education public schools in the country (they number in the 40s) and they all seem to have shown scholastic improvement.
But why? I assumed it was that the boys would no longer be distracted by the girls, or the girls would no longer want to attract the boys. According to the article it’s a lot more than that.
The pioneer behind single sex education is a Dr. Sax. He believes boys and girls are fundamentally different. For example, according to Sax, girls have a better sense of smell. They also hear better than boys! And he claims to have the brain imaging to prove that boys and girls think differently. Boys solve mazes with their hippocampus while girls do it with their cerebral cortex.
If boys and girls think differently then it is understandable that they are expected to study different subjects. Boys study the Talmud while girls study the Prophets. This is just but one difference. And they study in separate schools.
I know a rabbi who has a folder called “Science catching up.” It is a collection of scientific articles confirming Torah ideas that had previously been considered in conflict with science. I think this rabbi should add this NY Times article to his list.