Even with many tech stocks in the tank, our lives increasingly involve the Internet. This is likely as true for kids as it is for professionals. Anyone who’s seen a youth using a computer knows that kids take to the machines better than they take to bicycles and skateboards. The Internet has arguably opened children’s…
Dr. James Catterall, professor at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education, says that his academic career has taken him down three main paths over the last few decades. The first was the examination of the economics of education, a pursuit that extended naturally from his undergraduate background in economics and from his graduate work at Stanford…
Christy Bosch, curriculum coordinator at Ohio’s Logan-Hocking School District, is in charge of creating a course of study that will not only best educate the students of that district, but will also enable them to succeed on Ohio’s Graduation Proficiency Test. The test—a recent upgrade from the Ninth Grade Proficiency Test used for the last…
We’ve seen no small amount of hoopla over the suggestion, first made in the journal Nature in 1993, that listening to Mozart might improve spatial-temporal reasoning abilities. This news set off a series of events that might best be described as a sort of hysteria. What came to be known as the Mozart Effect was…
“There are always some students who can’t get the motor running,” says Gregory Downs, an instructor at DePaul University and former high school teacher. “Some of them have been up until one in the morning, and they struggle to be alert. Others go to sleep at a normal hour but need 10 or 12 hours…
Few scenarios have seemed more promising for the unraveling of human mystery than the research pot of gold that many believe identical twins to be. Unlike the rest of the actual, messy human world, monozygotic twins represent an almost perfect study-in-the-making: two identical copies of the same genetic makeup placed into the world at nearly…