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Teaching methods go from lab to classroom

Researchers are testing approaches to make learning stick

illustration of classroom brain chairs

BRAIN GAINS  Moving education research into classrooms can be messy. But researchers are taking the plunge and finding some approaches that boost learning.  

Alex NaBaum

By Susan Gaidos

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