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Psychologists have long stated that families of higher income and education levels talk more with their children and speak to them in complex sentences. But the study is one of the first to focus on whether gestures, too, have an influence on vocabulary and school preparedness.
2009-02-13
language literacy speech gesture child educationExcellent about the need for re-unification of mathematics and geometry, and physics. ... Also: Jacobi noted, as mathematics' most fascinating property, that in it one and the same function controls both the presentations of a whole number as a sum of four squares and the real movement of a pendulum. These discoveries of connections between heterogeneous mathematical objects can be compared with the discovery of the connection between...
1997-03-07
philosophy mathematics physics education geometryThe Kansas Evolution Hearings were a series of hearings held in Topeka, Kansas, United States May 5 to May 12, 2005 by the Kansas State Board of Education and its State Board Science Hearing Committee to change how evolution and the origin of life would be taught in the state's public high school science classes. The hearings were arranged by the conservative Christian Board of Education with the intent of introducing intelligent...
The Disney Studio has pledged to remove smoking from its family-oriented films.
2007-07-25
smoking education patronizing... the Japanese slaughter of some 300,000 civilians in the Chinese city of Nanjing as an incident, rather than the massacre it is known as elsewhere.
2005-04-05
history Japan revisionism educationThe (US) federal government, vastly extending the reach of an 11-year-old law, is requiring hundreds of universities, online communications companies and cities to overhaul their Internet computer networks to make it easier for law enforcement authorities to monitor e-mail and other online communications.
2005-10-23
freedom education big brother tracking surveillance InternetThe organization that maintains the online encyclopedia Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/) proposes the creation of Wikiversity, an electronic institution of learning that will be used to test the limits of the wiki model both for developing electronic learning resources as well as for teaching and for conducting research and publishing results. Still in the initial startup phase, Wikiversity could, at the least, be an open repository...
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