WalletHub analyzed U.S. school systems to determine the top-performers, and asked a panel of researchers and experts, including Professor Jamshed Bharucha, for their insights. The findings can be found at https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-the-best-schools/5335/#jamshed-bharucha
Kevin Griffee '19, one of Professor Coch's lab assistants, describes current research in the Reading Brains Lab: "Our research sheds light on how people process rhymes, and how they process reading in general, information we believe is valuable in teaching kids to read." An article about this work can be found at ...
[more]Professor Andrew Garrod was recognized for promoting cultural understanding through the arts. See
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I Am Where I Come From, edited by Andrew Garrod, Robert Kilkenny, and Melanie Benson Taylor (Cornell University Press, 2017) is recommended as one of PBS Newshour Art Beat's 19 summer books that will keep you up all night reading. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/19-summer-books-will-keep-night-reading/
Sean Kang was recently awarded a grant by the National Endowment for Financial Education to investigate “Making it stick: Using cognitive science and technology to enhance the impact of financial education.”
David Kraemer is the Principal Investigator for Dartmouth on a recent collaborative grant from the National Science Foundation. The project is a collaboration between researchers in Kraemer’s lab, along with co-investigator, James Haxby in Psychological and Brain Sciences, and researchers at three other institutions. Their research will explore "Neural and cognitive strengthening of conceptual knowledge and reasoning in classroom-based spatial education.”
Michele Tine received a Dartmouth College, Scholarly Innovation and Advancement Award for the project: The Build-It Box Program: Bringing Informal Out of-School STEM Activities to Children Living in Rural Poverty.
Congratulations to the seven of sixteen 2017 Fulbright scholars who plan to teach English abroad next year! The story about this year’s group is on the Dartmouth homepage (seehttps://news.dartmouth.edu/news/2017/04/sixteen-students-and-alumni-offered-fulbrights?utm_source=dhome&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=...
[more]Hayes, J.C. & Kraemer, D.J.M. (2017). Grounded understanding of abstract concepts: The case of STEM learning. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2:7.
Explores the connection between grounded cognition – the notion that knowledge partially relies on neural mechanisms pertaining to sensory and motoric processes – and STEM learning, evaluating several theories describing how the brain supports concept learning and proposing new research avenues awaiting exploration.
Steve Nelson, Valley News education columnist and contributor to Huffington Post and Head of Calhoun School in NYC will be talking about his new book First Do No Harm: Progressive Education in a Time of Existential Risk at the Norwich Bookstore on Wednesday, February 8, 2017 at 7pm. Open to the public.
The Norwich Bookstore states: "Current educational practices, particularly in the United States, instill conformity and compliance at a time when...
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