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Why Your Brain Has Better Things to Do than “Grow”
Intuitively, the idea of “growing” sounds great. It’s become synonymous with making something bigger, better,…
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What Kind of Citizen?: Educating Our Children for the Common...
Schools may be vehicles for achieving our idealized society because they allow us to mold…
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The Impact of Brain Damage on Education: An Interview with...
As an optometrist-scientist and Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Lotfi…
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How to Get the Most Out of Reading to Children
For years we’ve known about the literacy gap between children of differing socio-economic backgrounds. We’ve…