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Prof @ UVa who's puttin' the funk back in functional brain imaging and the psycho in psychometrics. One study is just one study, folks.
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Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Do Today's Kids Have Reduced Attention Spans?

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By Daniel T. Willingham
| American Federation of Teachers Verified
How does the mind work—and especially how does it learn? Teachers’ instructional decisions are based on a mix of theories learned in teacher education, trial and error, craft knowledge, and gut instinct. Such knowledge often serves us well, but is there anything sturdier to rely on? Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field of researchers from psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, and anthropology who seek to understand the mind.
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Rediscovering Knowledge as the Key to Reading

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By Daniel T. Willingham, E.D. Hirsch
| Education Next Verified
American educators have returned to the notion that shared background knowledge is essential to reading instruction, ending a decades-long lost cause that insisted reading skills and levels were the paths to literacy. For decades, reading instruction in the United States has focused on helping children acquire generic, transferable skills such as finding the main idea of a passage or drawing inferences.
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Sen. Burger proposes raising Missouri interstate speed limit to 75

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By Daniel T. Willingham
| Delta Dunklin Democrat Verified
Sen. Jamie Burger believes rural parts of the state should have an increased speed limit on the Interstate system. Burger (R-Benton), who represents the state's 27th Sentate District, recently brought a proposed bill in front of a committee on doing just that. "I think this is something that we need to do," Burger said Feb. 2 in front of the Senate's Transportation, Infrastructure and Public Safety committee.
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