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bulletTEACHING MINDS: HOW COGNITIVE SCIENCE CAN SAVE OUR SCHOOLS

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published by Teacher's College Press in October 2011

Unfortunately education and teaching rarely means either of these things in today’s world.
The premise of my new book is simple. We have all gone to school. We all know that school is organized around academic subjects like math, English, history and science. But how else might school be organized? There is an easy answer to this: organize school around thought processes.

Read my list of 12 cognitive processes that underlie learning.

Order Teaching Minds on Amazon.

 

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A number of interviews and lectures I've given have been posted online. You can also view recaps of a five-part series I co-hosted on CNBC called "The Business of Innovation."

Also, check out the Learning Games section to learn about one of my newer projects, Grandparent Games.

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Books

I have written a lot of books. My favorites form into two groups.

The How the Mind Works Group

The How Education Needs to be Fixed Group
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Articles

Here are some articles I have written that I like and some stuff that has been written about me.

For more to read, visit my blog, Education Outrage, for frequent columns on the sorry state of our education system today.

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