Blount Schools host national conference on how boys, girls learn

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'Blount County Schools hosted a national conference this week in which an American psychologist and family physician provided teachers with powerful new information about gender differences that could improve student performance.
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"Do not ever assume all girls are one way and all boys are one way. That's a false assumption," said Dr. Leonard Sax, author of "Why Gender Matters," prefacing his speech.

Sax then talked about the differences in typical male and female visual systems. "Everything about sex-difference visual systems we know from the last eight years -- mostly the last four to five years," he said, noting researchers used to only study men.

"The assumption until eight or nine years ago was apparently that females were just shorter males who menstruate," Sax joked. Researchers have learned a typical man's brain is wired differently from girls to make boys more interested in movement.'