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Harvard GSE Program Examines Link Between Brain Research and LearningTeachers, administrators, and all others with a vested interest in education are not taking full advantage of how information from neuroscience and genetics can be used to motivate kids to learn, according to a recent report in Science Daily magazine. After facing a great deal of opposition, Harvard's seven-year-old graduate program, "Mind, Brain, and Education," is beginning to make strides in highlighting the importance of the biology of learning. "Combining such time-tested disciplines [as cognitive development, psychology, linguistics, and philosophy] with powerful techniques like brain scanning to improve learning across the board offers lots of promise, " said Harvard's Kurt Fischer in the Science Daily report. "But there's still much research to be done. We still need to train more teachers who can evaluate and put in to practice the results of this research." Fischer is the Charles Warland Bigelow Professor of Education and Human Development, and one of the founders of the Mind, Brain, and Education program at Harvard. The program now turns out 40 masters and two to four doctors of education each year and, according to Fischer, "is laying the groundwork that will eventually transform education."
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