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Where Art Meets Science
Xunesis, an interdisciplinary company of scientists, media, and performing artists, will premier the short film on human memory, “Retrieval,” along with a companion learning module, at the National Institute for the Teaching of Psychology conference
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Science Goes to School: Grant Program Seeks Scientific Foundation for Nation’s Schools
He was hooked by a 5-year-old girl. While at State University of New York-Stony Brook, Robert Siegler conducted a standard experiment, but with low expectations that he could duplicate Jean Piaget’s findings. He poured water
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Isolation, Interdisciplinarity, Inspiration
Peter Glick is approaching his 18th year of teaching at Lawrence University, an undergraduate only liberal arts college of about 1400 students. In this guest column, he reflects on doing research in that setting, drawing
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Privacy Protection or Poor Policy? Some things you may not know about the ESEA
For the first three quarters of 2001, only two pieces of legislation received much attention on Capitol Hill. The first was the president’s budget – no surprise there. The second was the Elementary and Secondary
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How to Succeed in College: Learn How to Learn
Assume that you have a younger sibling who is going to be a college freshman next Fall. Assume further that this particular sibling actually believes that you may have learned something – that is, that
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Science in Educational Media: Taking it to the (Sesame) Street
There is a tremendous range in the degree to which research plays a role in the production of educational media for children. Many producers rely on little or no research input, limited, perhaps, to occasional
