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Watch and Learn
Children’s educational television has had a successful beginning and middle, but as it extends its lessons through the Internet and classroom activities, will it help kids live happily ever after? In the early 1970s, graduate
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Sesame Street for Adults: A Review of Avenue Q
Go to Sesame Street, make a sharp turn in any direction, keep on going for 35 years or so, and you’ll get to Avenue Q – the 2004 Tony Award-winning musical currently on Broadway. Avenue
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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
