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T.H.E. Journal June 2003 Mona Westhaver	Learning to Learn: The Best Strategy for Overall Student Achievement State and local funding for schools is decreasing. Learning to learn -- helping students develop thinking skills, learning skills and, most importantly, a passion for learning -- is the solution that will have the most long-term and widespread impact.
Fast Company April 2002 Chuck Salter	''It's Cool to Be Smart'' Freeman Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, is nurturing a new generation of African-American scientists and mathematicians. His lesson plan: high standards, hand-on help, and some killer chess...
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010	National Awards to Foster Science Education In May, HHMI announced $79 million of new grants to help universities strengthen undergraduate and precollege science education nationwide.
HHMI Bulletin February 2011	New International Competition for Early Career Scientists The biomedical competition is aimed at helping up to 35 early career scientists establish independent research programs. Scientists trained in the United States who are now running a lab in any eligible country may apply.
HHMI Bulletin May 2011 Cathy Shufro	Richard Losick: Extolling the Teacher-Scientist Universities should encourage creative teaching, says Losick, just as they reward outstanding research.
HHMI Bulletin Spring 2013 Robert Gutnikoff	Lab on the Move When the high school classroom setting is lacking, enter the mobile lab from the University of Texas -- Pan American, in Edinburg, funded with HHMI grants in 2004 and 2008.
T.H.E. Journal March 2005 Douglas Kellner	The Changing Classroom: Challenges for Teachers The integration of technology in classrooms has obligated teachers to develop new teaching strategies to enhance learning across the curriculum.
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011	HHMI Offers International Student Research Fellowships New fellowship supports 48 international graduate students.
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012	HHMI Awards $50 Million to Colleges Forty-seven small colleges and universities have accepted a challenge: to create more engaging science classes, bring real-world research experiences to students, and increase the diversity of students who study science.
T.H.E. Journal June 2000 Sarah M. Butzin	Project Child: A Decade of Success for Young Children Does technology make a difference in helping children acquire the basic skills of reading, writing and mathematics? Yes, according to a decade of research on a computer-integrated instructional program...
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Erin Peterson	Making Bigger Better University of Texas at Austin Freshman Research Initiative student Holli Duhon describes her research.
T.H.E. Journal November 2000 Pat Herr	The Changing Role of the Teacher: How Management Systems Help Facilitate Teaching...
HHMI Bulletin May 2012	2012 Gilliam Fellows Announced Howard Hughes Medical Institute has selected nine students to receive the 2012 Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study.
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HHMI Bulletin May 2011	New HHMI Gilliam Fellows Selected This year, Howard Hughes Medical Institute doubled the number of the Gilliam fellowships available after realizing that they had more top applicants than they could fund.
T.H.E. Journal October 7, 2009 Ruth Reynard	More Challenges with Wikis: 4 Ways To Move Students from Passive to Active Wikis are truly powerful tools to support collaboration. However, teachers are the central engager and the one who keeps the process moving forward.
T.H.E. Journal September 2002 Dan Holden	The Litany Investigating the organizational changes needed to make technology effective in the classroom and create an environment where no child is left behind
T.H.E. Journal October 2005 Moss & Solomon	Teaching the Fourth `R' of Science Education: Research A partnership program between the Bronx High School of Science and Elsevier introduces students to the world of scientific research through ScienceDirect.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011	Michelle Withers: Extolling the Teacher-Scientist I create learning activities so students come up with their own answers. I need to figure out what questions will get them there. How can I guide them to figure it out?
T.H.E. Journal February 2002 Kevin T. McNulty	Fostering the Student-Centered Classroom Online There are many ways to maximize use of the Internet to benefit student instruction. On my classroom Web site I publish tutorials to assist with classroom instruction, and students use the site as a launchpad to research information...
HBS Working Knowledge September 6, 2006 Deborah Blagg	Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom In his course on commercializing science and technology, Lee Fleming combines students from business, engineering, law, science, and medicine. The result: Ideas for products from scale-eating bacteria to quantum dot cancer treatments.
T.H.E. Journal February 2009 Charlene O'Hanlon	Credit Recovery Software: the New Summer School Districts are using online programs to get at-risk students back on track to graduation.
T.H.E. Journal October 2002 Tshepo Batane	Technology and Student Collaboration A research project in one Botswana secondary school
T.H.E. Journal September 2, 2009 Ruth Reynard	5 Ways We're Diminishing Learning by Assuming Face-to-Face Instruction Is Best Face-to-face instruction is often assumed to be the proven method, while other methods have yet to prove themselves. This assumption is not only misleading, but it might also be helping to diminish potential opportunities of better learning for our students.
T.H.E. Journal April 2004	ImagiProbe Students collecting data in the field can rely on ImagiProbe, a sensor-based data acquisition system that enables students to conduct authentic scientific investigations.
HHMI Bulletin February 2011	Louisa Stark: The Internet Age To engage children and teenagers in science, it helps to entertain. Louisa Stark, director of the Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah, uses tools that students have already mastered, such as the internet.
T.H.E. Journal March 2000 Sue Shelton	Breathing New Life into a Dead Language: Teaching Latin Online
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2010	Science Education Outreach Targets Students In Rural Schools Many of HHMI's science education grantees are focusing their outreach efforts on teachers and students from rural schools. Because long-distance travel is often out of the question, they are sending curricula and materials to rural teachers.
T.H.E. Journal May 2005 Mari Liles	Interactive Whiteboard System Drives Increased Achievement at Texas School for the Deaf The electronic whiteboard system has made a huge difference in how teachers teach and how motivated students have become about learning.
T.H.E. Journal February 2003 Jaclyn Scott	Don't Forget the Little People: A Vision for an Online Kindergarten Learning Community Kindergarten students are unique because they are at the beginning stages of learning how to be independent individuals. They are dependent on adults to supervise, protect and guide them through life and learning experiences. These principles apply to a virtual learning community.
T.H.E. Journal June 2009 Lorna Collier	Inspiration Information A free digital resource brings students up close with leading professionals across a variety of fields to help them see the real-world relevance of their studies.
T.H.E. Journal March 2009 John K. Waters	The Kids Are All Right A major study on the impact of digital technologies on learning argues that students' online pursuits are productive and edifying, and should be exploited by teachers for educational gain.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011	Evolution of the Textbook Publishers are beginning to go digital with science textbooks, pushing boundaries to give students a personalized, interactive experience.
T.H.E. Journal December 2002 June E. Streckfus	Maryland Strives to Improve Student Learning While Maryland has made a tremendous investment in infrastructure, its overarching goal continues to be improving student learning in core educational areas, as well as in the technological knowledge and skills that are critical to a student's ability to function in today's society.
T.H.E. Journal October 25, 2007 Ferdig & Boyer	Can Game Development Impact Academic Achievement? Having students develop games has shown tremendous promise for motivating students, building conceptual knowledge, and improving content knowledge acquisition.
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012	Fifty International Students Get Support from HHMI Italian graduate student Elisa Araldi is one of 50 from 19 countries who were awarded HHMI International Student Research Fellowships.
T.H.E. Journal April 2004	LarsonMath.com: Intermediate LarsonMath.com: Intermediate is an online, subscription-based math program for students in grades 3-6.
T.H.E. Journal February 2003 Sylvia Charp	Engaging the Tech-Savvy Generation It's the job of every educator to use all technological resources available to keep students engaged in the classroom. But a true tech-savvy educator is continually learning from his or her students.
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Paul Muhlrad	Irving Epstein: Better Living Through Chemistry (Class) It will require a change in mindset for chemistry faculty if we are going to get students into chemistry because they want to be, rather than because they have to be.
T.H.E. Journal October 21, 2009 Ruth Reynard	Bridging the Gap Between Online and On-ground Teaching Increasing numbers of studies are being done that seem to support the notion that blended course delivery or program delivery really captures the best of every possible world and, as such, is an effective way of learning for students.
T.H.E. Journal June 2002 Anne Marie Urevick	Philadelphia Students Gain Real-World Experience From Web and Graphics Design Curriculum The Cisco Networking Academy Program combines theoretical and applied learning to teach students how to build and maintain computer networks and design Web sites. These classes have created a successful learning environment where students arrive early, stay late and love to work.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011 Robert Tjian	President's Letter: Journal: Scientists at the Heart Journal aims to publish the highest-quality research across the full spectrum of the life sciences.
T.H.E. Journal September 2004 Sue Cooper	Computerized Practice Tests Boost Student Achievement By taking practice tests four to five times prior to the state testing, students are showing significant improvement within their deficit areas. More important, the students are enjoying themselves.
T.H.E. Journal March 2005 Frederick Conway	Electronic Portfolios and Dimensions of Learning Electronic portfolios benefit teachers and parents who can use them to easily track a student's progression. Electronic portfolios also appeal to students.
T.H.E. Journal March 2000	CD-ROM Helps Students Navigate Real-Life Dilemmas Real world middle-school dilemmas are dramatized in The Basement Bums Adventures in Life Skills, an educational CD-ROM from Little Planet Learning....
T.H.E. Journal October 2008 Esther Shein	Making History Creating podcasts out of actual World War II-era events offers one example of a collaborative project that is propelling students out of their textbooks and into the real world.
T.H.E. Journal April 2001 Joshua D. Baron & Mercedes M. McKay	Designing and Delivering an Online Course for K-12 Educators The design and delivery of a distance education course are complex undertakings. This is partly because the development process involves many interrelated elements that must work in unison to form a single system for learning...
T.H.E. Journal November 2002 Laura Grillo Abdelnour	Bytes of Learning's CREATE Together CREATE Together from Bytes of Learning is a multimedia software program that combines creation, collaboration, communication, problem solving and publishing tools for all grade levels.
T.H.E. Journal May 2002 Colleen Brandao	Teaching online: Harnessing Technology's Power at Florida Virtual School With modest beginnings in 1996, FLVS has evolved from an instructional experiment based on distance learning to a successful mainstream educational alternative serving the students of Florida and beyond...