neuroscience

Born to Explore: Nine things we need to know about the brain

In his new book, psychologist Louis Cozolino applies the lessons of social neuroscience to the classroom. And here are his head (!) lines excerpted…

11 years ago

“Not where the light is”: Schools and Creativity

There's a really useful article in  Education Week that reviews, summarizes and connects the basic thinking and research out there…

13 years ago

Box? What box? Breaking the mind-forged manacles.

Probably the only two responses to constant change are to ignore it (shrink back, retrench, go off the grid, become…

14 years ago

Brain Surgery

Can you tell the anterior cortex, amygdala, and  parietal lobe from  the optic chiasma and  the corpus collosum? If not…

16 years ago

Give Joy a Chance: An 11-Step Program

It's the 21st century. So what happens when we shut children down and disconnect them from wonder, creativity, curiosity and…

16 years ago

Connect Joy to Neuroscience

In their zeal to raise test scores, too many policymakers wrongly assume that students who are laughing, interacting in groups,…

17 years ago