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Provides researched-based teaching strategies, discussing memory and test-taking success, strategies for captivating students' attention, how stress and emotion affect learning, and assessment.

Explores the implications of discoveries in how the human brain functions for education, describing each of the brain's five major learning systems, including emotional, social, cognitive, physical, and reflective, looking at how they work together, and explaining how teachers can use knowledge of these systems to promote learning in the classroom.

Provides information about human intelligence, featuring facts about many different aspects of how the brain works, and including related activities.

Reports on research from neuroscience, as well as the behavioral and cognitive sciences that reveals how the brain learns, and discusses the implications of these discoveries for educators and their instructional methods.

Presents ideas that challenge twenty-first-century education techniques, focusing on innovation and challenging tradition, and describes customized learning, the importance of computers and technology, competing in the global class room, and more.

Discusses possible changes for the way teaching is done, exploring ways of moving away from "telling students what they are supposed to know." Examines letting the books and the students do the talking, separating power and authority, inquiring together, writing, and experiences that teach.

A collection of fourteen essays which discusses technology's influence on learning, debating the effectiveness of online classes, the Internet, and social networking, and other related topics.

A collection of articles about how the brain functions and how learning occurs; includes advice on how to use the current research about brain functions to create classroom activities that increase a child's focus and learning ability.