Because there appeared to be no viable path to providing each student with their own personal tutor, Bloom called on educational researchers to “find methods of group instruction as effective as ...

“I’ve had such a phobia about computers for so long,” says Howell, a high school teacher. “It’s a mixture of fear, not knowing how to use it, not wanting to go through all this upheaval.” But this ...

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Includes updates and/or revisions. Still, no one expects the technology to ever replace the real thing. Then she responds encouragingly, “Let’s read again what the problem is asking.” This scene would ...

HAMPTON BAYS – Only weeks after she bought a new computer to e-mail her brother in North Carolina, 72-year-old Pat Holden learned her new "toy" was the victim of a leak in her roof. "I was in a pickle ...

For most of us, working on a computer is almost second nature. Terms like ‘website’ and networks like ‘Facebook’ are things that we don’t even think twice about when logging on and checking out our ...

On a summer afternoon, Isabel, a math tutor with long chestnut-colored hair and hoop earrings, sat in the lower-right corner of my computer screen as I wrestled with geometry problems. When I answered ...