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While the foundational focus on the arts has contributed to the formulation of its larger theories, ultimately the goal of Project Zero is to advance education as a whole...
...When you’re saying there is this whole bunch of things that people need to learn, and they need to learn them well, and all these diverse students need to be able to learn them well, it’s like trying to plant a field without having the seeds,” Grotzer says. “You have to know what to do to nourish them, to make them grow. Unless you know what to do on the ground, you aren’t going to change education...
...Seeing is so easy that we don’t realize that it’s really a bunch of neurons firing away up there,” Livingstone says. “Their whole job is to extract information about the environment, and how these patterns of neurons fire is really a nontrivial thing...
...largely conjecture. It is guesses and estimations,” he says. “So much of what we hear about the Underground Railroad is from quilts, but it all might be hearsay.” For Biggers, this ambiguity is a metaphor for his exhibition as a whole...
...party's conservative-moderate divide. In Virginia, Robert McDonnell won a landslide - the first Republican win in a governor's race there in 12 years - by running as a problem solver. Social conservatives know he is one of them. But independent voters strongly backed him too. Voters as a whole trusted him more than his Democratic opponent on everything from fixing the roads to strengthening the economy. Once he had that trust, Democrats were unable to get voters to see him as frighteningly conservative, although they tried to make hay out of a hard-right master's thesis McDonnell wrote...