Report on Reports II

Transforming America’s Scientific and Technological Infrastructure: Recommendations for Urgent Action Project Kaleidoscope, 2006 The reports cited in these pages present specific recommendations for immediate action by one or many of the stakeholder communities: educational and business leaders, politicians and parents, staff of public and private funding agencies. The highlighted “calls to action” are one beginning […]

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Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science

Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science, gives attention how teams works in the science research community that can be easily translated into a guide for teams responsible for the physical environment for learning on a campus. Whether it be focusing on new or repurposed spaces or as part of an ongoing institutional focus on learning […]

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Branches from the Same Tree

Branches from the Same Tree, one of the newest reports from the National Academics of Science, presents the case for The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering and Medicine in Higher Education. The very title signals the impact that it will have on those responsible for spaces now being designed and constructed […]

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ARISE 2: Unleashing America’s Research & Innovation Enterprise

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Discipline-Based Education Research (DBER)

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Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation

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Excerpts from Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education

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The Engineer of 2020

CONNECTIONS BETWEEN ENGINEERING PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE What attributes will the engineer of 2020 have? Given the uncertain and changing character of the world in which 2020 engineers will work, engineers will need something that cannot be described in a single word. It involves dynamism, agility, resilience, and flexibility. Not only will technology change quickly, the […]

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How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School

There are many reasons to be curious about the way people learn, and the past several decades have seen an explosion of research that has important implications for individual learning, schooling, workforce training, and policy. In 2000, How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition was published and its influence has been wide and deep. […]

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