Many students in this country speak more than one language well, but some of their classmates struggle to learn English. How can brain science help the English language learner?
It's not hard to fathom; if we knew more about the brain, we could do a better job of educating our children. How can we bring the brain and education together?
Brain Teasers Sound Discrimination ABC Gulp All children need to learn their ABCs, and by learning to recognize and name each letter in the alphabet, children take their first steps into the world of written language. Challenge your knowledge of letter-
This is the Web site for Human Rights Watch, the largest human rights organization based in the United States. Human Rights Watch researchers conduct fact-finding investigations into human rights abuses in all regions of the world. Human Rights Watch then
This link is for the FRONTLINE World Web site where streaming video and story transcripts for many global issues can be found. Developed by FRONTLINE producers in conjunction with public television stations KQED San Francisco and WGBH Boston, FRONTLINE/Wo
PhotoFiltre is a complete image retouching program. It allows you to do simple or advanced adjustments to an image and apply a vast range of filters on it. It is simple and intuitive to use, and has an easy learning curve. The toolbar, giving you access t
Teachers' Domain has partnered with PBS TeacherLine to offer a special collection of Teachers' Domain professional development courses in Physical, Life, and Earth Sciences for elementary, middle school, and high school educators.
Grammar Girl character. Her shows, each less than five minutes long, have been downloaded more than 3 million times since July 2006. Topics have ranged from whoversus whom to subjunctive verbs to the always difficult lay versus lie. Fogarty walks her list
AARP, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), and the Library of Congress have teamed up to collect and preserve personal accounts of America's struggle to fulfill the promise of equality for all. We invite you to explore this site, a tribute to
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Web 2.0 is the term given to describe a second generation of the World Wide Web that is focused on the ability for people to collaborate and share information online.
Greek drama is explored through a reading of a play by Sophocles, reviewing drama's place in Greek society, and a report from the perspective of a Greek theater patron.
