In Teaching for Critical Thinking, Stephen Brookfield builds on his last three decades of experience running workshops and teaching courses on critical thinking to explore how student learn to think this way, and what teachers can doto help students develop this capacity. He outlines a basic protocol of critical thinking ...
Via Joanne Jacobs blog, a mathematician makes case for learning statistics over learning calc. He says: “For the last 200 years, the mathematics that we’ve learned starts with arithmetic and algebra, and everything we do after that is taking us toward one subject, calculus. I think that is ...
Luis Alfonso Lopez looks over college informational handouts with his son, Miguel Angel Lopez, during a recent forum for immigrant families held at Christian Brothers University. Miguel, 17, is a senior at Southwind High School. They were among about 200 who attended. ...
HOUSTON Dr. Malcolm Brenner, director of the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, a joint program of Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital and The Methodist Hospital, will be presented with the 2011 American Society of Hematology Mentor Award at the society's annual meeting in December. The ...