Subtle threat to higher ed raises case against highlighters
Yale legal scholar Lawrence Beyer argues highlighters distort reading and foster superficial skimming in students. He says pens allow margins and writing, while highlighters encourage passive reading and derail critical engagement, despite widespread use on campuses.
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New York
Lawrence Beyer
Yale
Beyer
New Haven
New York Times Book Review
The
New Republic
Academic Questions
National Association of Scholars
Edward Desch
Princeton
N.J
Paul Miseredino
Yale Co-op
Tulane Law School
Soviets give rare mammoth hair to U S museum
The Illinois State Museum received a bag of mammoth hair from the Soviet Zoological Institute. The strand, from a female mammoth found frozen in Siberia in 1979, dates back about 10 000 years and could yield genetic material tests. Display planned by summer.
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U.S
Springfield
Ilinois State Museum
Soviet Union
Zoological Institute
Smithsonian
State Museum
R. Bruce McMillan
Hemisphere
North America
Iinois Museum
Siberia
McMillan
United States
Gennady Baryshnikov
MIT professor uses Legos to boost classroom learning
MIT researcher Seymour Papert promotes Lego based learning to foster curiosity and hands on invention. Alongside Mitchel Resnick he integrates Lego with gears motors and sensors in MIT Media Lab to let Boston area students build programmable moving models and explore how things work.
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Cambridge, Mass
Seymour Papert
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Papert
Mitchel Resnick
MIT
Edison
Wright
Lego
Media Lab
Boston
George
Frederick hosts Soviet student athletes on cultural exchange tour
About 50 Soviet athletes visiting Frederick on a five day program toured the city with JC Penney indoor trees and a Roy Rogers lunch. They met the mayor, rode a trolley, and toured Frederick Towne Mall as part of the Pangaea International exchange organized with Rep Beverly Byron. The trip includes a Washington, DC tour and a track exhibition, with 14,000 plus raised by local sponsors to fund the event.
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Frederick
Leningrad
Pangaea
Frederick Towne Mall
Roy Rogers
Soviet Union
United States
Griffin
Beverly Byron
Barbara Saikin
Pangaea International
Frederick County
Frederick High Schoo
Washington, D.C
Byron
Connie Novak
Fun Factory
Frederick High School
City Hall
Baltimore Orioles
Paul Gordon
George Washington
Washington
Gen. Braddock
Gordon
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