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Over the past several decades, boys' behavior and performance in school has continued to decline. Researchers like Michael Gurian say these are indications that schools are not structured to accommodate how boys' brains work and how they learn. Included: Strategies for making classes more "boy friendly." A few decades ago, the assertion that schools need to do more to help boys succeed would have raised a room full of eyebrows.
Wire Side Chats: Helping Boys Learn
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Why Boys and Girls Learn Differently
How Boys and Girls Learn Differently
Scientific studies show that boys see things differently than girls.Neuroscience for Kids - The Musical Brain
Music and Memory and Intelligence In the early 1990s, an experiment was done which seemed to show that listening to classical music could improve memory! This effect has come to be known as "The Mozart Effect" because the musical selection that seemed to improve memory was a song by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Many people read about this experiment in popular magazines and newspapers and thought that listening to classical music would be a good way to improve memory and increase intelligence. Let's look a bit closer at the original experiment and other experiments. The original experiment was published in the journal Nature by scientists at the University of California at Irvine in 1993.
Effects of Popular and Classical Background Music on the Math Test Scores of Undergraduate Students
Mike Manthei Minneapolis, MN Steve N. Kelly
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