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Observer Forum
Randomly Confused I AM PUZZLED BY THE ARTICLE titled, “How Random Is That?” [September 2005 Observer]. The article appears to confuse (or at least not helpfully distinguish) random selection with several other “randoms” that populate
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In Appreciation: Julian Stanley
Julian Stanley started his career as a high school math teacher, after getting his bachelors from the Georgia Southern University. He went on to get his doctorate in education from Harvard in 1950, as well
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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