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Nature 435, 1156-1158 (30 June 2005) | doi:10.1038/4351156a; Published online 29 June 2005

Educational research:  Big plans for little brains

Trisha Gura1

  1. Trisha Gura is a freelance science writer based in Boston.
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Experts in neuroscience, computing and education are coming together in a massive effort to put the way in which children are taught on a sounder scientific footing. Trisha Gura profiles this ambitious — some might say foolhardy — initiative.

In 1997, John Bruer, the president of the James S. McDonnell Foundation, launched a broadside against the fashion of taking findings from neuroscience and trying to apply them in the classroom.

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