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The Right State of Mind

Recalling skills often depends on returning to your state of mind — or environment — where you first learned it.

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What Predicts School Performance?

All those open tabs on your internet browser can make it hard to focus — and might even drag down your GPA.

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What Is Metacognition?

Understanding how your brain works best and knowing how to avoid distractions can improve school performance.

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Introducing Preschoolers to Science: What Works and What Doesn't

Learn about the importance of introducing children to science at an early age.

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How the Brain Changes With Age

As we age, we can see our hair gray and our skin wrinkle. Less obvious are the changes happening in our brains.

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Bringing the Science of Learning Into Classrooms

Schools can use neuroscience research to optimize their environments to match the best ways for students to learn.

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Is It Time to Kill Annual Testing?

What if schools completely did away with standardized testing?

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How Your Brain Processes Information

Memories of failed attempts and false starts while learning to ride a bike may remain, but it likely all feels natural now. For that, you can thank the intricate circuits comprising your nervous system.

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How Experience Shapes Your Brain

You might struggle to learn new steps in your dance class, but your brain is working to ensure you nail the routine.

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Learning From Elementary Teachers

Many techniques used by elementary school teachers can be applicable to middle and high school teachers as well.

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Fear and Loathing in the Borderlands of the Brain

The junction between the cortex and the brainstem highlights the center of our emotions.

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Reasoning, Planning, and Problem-Solving

There are many little problems to handle well before your day starts, but your brain is there to get you through it all.

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The Power of Language

The human brain is wired for complex communication — just right for moving speeches and zingy one-liners.

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