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Tragic Shooting in Connecticut
By Harold Koplewicz, MD
Weeks after the tragic shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, we still have no idea what might motivate a young man to open fire on first graders and the teachers trying desperately to save their students. We will probably never know. But as details slowly emerge about Adam Lanza and his family, we are getting glimpses....READ MORE

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The World of the Sightless:
Dr. James Kutsch
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
Arguably the grandest epic poem in the history of the English language, “Paradise Lost” (1651), was written when John Milton was blind. But the celestial light emanating from this iconic work only proves the deep truth that Milton expressed two years later in the essay....READ MORE

PROFILES IN MEDICINE
Dr. Sally Shaywitz,
Yale U School of Medicine
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
“It’s time to call things what they really are,” declares neuroscientist Dr. Sally Shaywitz, the Audrey G. Ratner Professor in Learning Development at Yale University School of Medicine, and co-director....READ MORE

Education Update Interviews Patrick Anderson, Gold Medal Paralympic Winner
Interview by Dr. Pola Rosen
Transcription By Erica Anderson
Patrick Anderson, a Canadian, went to the University of Illinois on a basketball scholarship and is a current Hunter student majoring in music. He demonstrates....READ MORE

A Proposal for Deaf Science Education
By Derek C. Braun, Ph.D.
We’ve seen a sudden increase and remarkable success in deaf scientists and physicians since 1980, including a MacArthur genius. This cannot be due to cochlear implants, because implantation in children was not widespread until the 1990s; most of the successful....READ MORE

MUSEUMS AS EDUCATORS

New-York Historical Society Embarks on a New Era
Dr. Louise Mirrer, President and CEO of the New-York Historical Society, along with Dr. Sharon Dunn, Vice President of Education for the New-York Historical Society is interviewed by Education Update publisher Dr. Pola Rosen....WATCH VIDEO & READ ARTICLE

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