"'Brain-Based' Research: Run From It" Larry Cuban/Answer Sheet Blog/Washington Post 2/28/11
Run from it? I find Cuban's tone condescending, as if teachers are too ignorant to understand that neuroscience offers no easy solutions for education. Keeping up with the exciting research that is going on, as well as learning what we know about how we learn--for example by reading recent works by neuroscientists Stanislas Dehaene (Reading in the Brain) and Antonio Damasio (Self Comes to Mind)--can only enrich teaching. I know the words "brain-based research" are often part of a slick sales pitch, but anyone who's looking for a quick fix is probably not a very good teacher, wherever he might turn for the magic pill.
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