November 2000 | Volume 58 | Number 3
The Science of Learning
Feature Articles
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Marcia D'Arcangelo
A psychologist describes how brain research is both changing and affirming what we know about how children learn.
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Casey D. Cobb and John D. Mayer
Is EQ a mark of good character or an ability to understand emotional response? Two researchers sort the ways that emotional intelligence is being defined, measured, and taught.
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Robert Sylwester
Emotion, our biological thermostat, is central to cognition.
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Steven C. Schlozman and Vivien R. Schlozman
A medical doctor and an educator discuss what ADHD is, how it is diagnosed and treated, and which classroom strategies ease the way for students.
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Eric Jensen
Why standing up and stretching in the classroom might increase students' academic performance.
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Anne Meyer and David H. Rose
Technologies designed to correlate with and enhance brain patterns are helping us see learning abilities and disabilities as part of a continuum.
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Jane Wagmeister and Ben Shifrin
A staff weaves neurological research into the school's instruction to meet the needs of students with learning difficulties.
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Anne Westwater and Pat Wolfe
How meaningful the brain perceives new information to be determines how lasting a lesson will be.
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Yoram Harpaz and Adam Lefstein
The Branco Weiss Institute for the Development of Thinking offers a pedagogy based on questioning.
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Renate Nummela Caine
Returning to the classroom, the author finds that insights from brain research help her to be a more effective teacher.
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Joan Caulfield, Sue Kidd and Thel Kocher
A school experiments with strategies to enrich the curriculum and create a more positive atmosphere.
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Marcia D'Arcangelo
A scientist talks about how the brain grows from neurogenesis before birth to the complex wiring of the adult brain.
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Barbara K. Given
We are at once writer, producer, director, and actor in the mental movies we create.
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Patt Walsh
The author presents an intriguing way to teach about the brain.
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