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Are ‘Learning Styles’ a Symptom of Education’s Ills?
The New York Times: Do you like to learn by seeing, hearing or doing? According to some education researchers, it may not matter. They say the idea of teaching according to students’ “preferred learning styles” —
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How movies influence perceptions of brain disorders
The Globe and Mail: Regardless of whether Julianne Moore wins an Academy Award on Sunday for her starring role in Still Alice, the film gets an “A” for accuracy in Mary Spiers’s books. Spiers, a
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38th Annual National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology
January 3–6, 2016 TradeWinds Island Grand Resort, St. Pete Beach, Florida Co-sponsored by: Association for Psychological Science University of South Florida Department of Psychology Registration is limited to 375 participants; early registration is highly recommended.
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Teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science
Aimed at integrating cutting-edge psychological science into the classroom, Teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science offers advice and how-to guidance about teaching a particular area of research or topic in psychological science that has been
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The Smart Way to Teach Children About Money
The Wall Street Journal: It’s time to rethink how we teach children about money. For all the effort parents put into helping their children understand dollars and cents, and for all the effort schools put
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Closing the Math Gap for Boys
The New York Times: ON a recent afternoon, the banter of boisterous adolescents at Edwin G. Foreman High School, in a poor, racially and ethnically mixed Chicago neighborhood, echoed off the corridor walls. But Room