Nov. 2005, Vol. 2, No. 3
Cover Story: The K-12 Revolution
Koedinger Challenges Conventional Education
If your child gets sick, you wouldn’t give her medicine that hadn’t been tested to make sure it works. You wouldn’t take her to a pediatrician who didn’t rely on sound medical research. Yet few of us even blink at sending our children to schools where even the most gifted teachers are unfamiliar with the best research into how children think and learn.
Just ask Elida Laski. A former kindergarten teacher, she was a literacy coach in the Boston public schools when she discovered how little her fellow teachers knew about educational research.
“Education suffers to the extent that teachers are guided...
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Nov. 2005, Vol. 2, No. 3
Read about how Carnegie Mellon is transforming K-12 education. University researchers are introducing robotics into high school /article.asp?aid=282] curricula. Learn how some undergrads spent their summer on campus doing graduate-level research. Meet our new College of Fine Arts Dean Hilary Robinson and new Athletics Director Susan Bassett. Also, check out the Highlands Circle inaugural weekend.
Robots in the Classroom
Move over reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic. A new "R" for robotics has entered the classroom. Researchers at the National Robotics Engineering Consortium, part of Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute, are teaching robotics to high school teachers, who in turn are taking the lessons back to their own students.
Research Experience for Undergraduates
Carnegie Mellon's Research Experiences for Undergraduates program is a 10-week summer session that introduces students to academic research on the graduate level in a variety of disciplines.
The Highlands Circle
Carnegie Mellon recently inaugurated a very special philanthropic society called The Highlands Circle, which recognizes nearly 100 individuals, families, corporations and foundations that have each contributed $1 million or more to the university.