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Daniel Willingham is a cognitive scientist, by which I mean, he is an academic researcher who extracts information from psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, and ...
I was recently getting a much-needed haircut with a new stylist, and in our small talk, he asked me what I do for a living. I explained that I teach current and future teachers how people learn and do ...
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On a recent morning, I had the chance to read poems my ninth-grade English students had written about encounters with racism. I was struck by the beauty and poignance of many of their lines. Yet I ...
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