November 1998 | Volume 56 | Number 3
How the Brain Learns
Feature Articles
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Pat Wolfe and Ron Brandt
An explosion of research in neuroscience has the exciting potential to increase our understanding of learning.
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John T. Bruer
When applying research to classroom practice, educators must sort conclusive evidence from unsupported notion, this author warns.
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Marcia D'Arcangelo
Five authors of recent books about brain research identify what they regard as the most important implications of recent findings in neuroscience.
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Lawrence Lowery
New curriculums work on the premise that the more avenues through which students receive data, the better they understand science and math.
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Robert Sylwester
From smoothly executed motion to well-expressed emotion—why the arts must take center stage in schools.
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Norman M. Weinberger
Music is biologically rooted and fundamental to human development, brain research shows.
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Eric Jensen
A look into a "typical" student's brain to see how her neural structures affect her learning.
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Janet Wilde Astington
How to help children understand that others have different motivations, desires, wants, needs, and ways of thinking.
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Sharon S. Sweet
Letting a student use his dominant intelligence resulted in strengthening his other abilities.
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Carol Ann Tomlinson and M. Layne Kalbfleisch
The authors describe 14 characteristics of responsive classrooms.
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Kurt W. Fischer and Samuel P. Rose
From our birth to about age 30, our behavior and brains change in repeating patterns.
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Pat Wolfe
From anticipatory sets to task analysis—brain research confirms the practices that good teachers have been using for years.
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Marilee Sprenger
Different teaching strategies trigger different ways of retrieving information.
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Barbara K. Given
Why students' eating habits are a serious issue for schools.
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Kim Chase
A middle school teacher takes a humorous look at her students' seven "other intelligences."
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Sally M. Reis, Sandra N. Kaplan, Carol A. Tomlinson, Karen L. Westberg, Carolyn M. Callahan and Carolyn R. Cooper
The authors do not agree that detracking results in higher achievement.
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