Maple Transactions−The Early Years

Early Years

Early Years Policy.

In this paper, we analyze the role that early years policy might play in narrowing educational attainment gaps. We begin by examining gaps in school readiness between low-, middle-, and high-income children, drawing on data from new large and nationally representative birth cohort studies in the US and UK. We find that sizable income-related gaps in school readiness are present in both countrie...

Educational neuroscience: the early years.

A s developmental cognitive neuroscience explores mechanisms of change at the cognitive and neural systems level, a focus is beginning to emerge on the role of educational experiences in shaping the specific functional circuits that give rise to complex cognitive skills such as reading or math. Such studies mark the emergence of educational neuroscience. This interdisciplinary field tackles que...

Early years of neutrino oscillations

The first papers on neutrino oscillations are shortly reviewed The idea of neutrino oscillations was put forward in Dubna by B. Pontecorvo. He came to this idea as early as 1957, soon after parity violation in β-decay was discovered by Wu et. al. [1] and the theory of two-component neutrino was proposed by Landau [2], Lee and Yang [3] and Salam [4]. Only one type of neutrinos was known at that ...

String Theory: The Early Years

Lenny Susskind has made many important contributions to theoretical physics during the past 35 years. In this talk I will discuss the early history of string theory (1968-72) emphasizing Susskind’s contributions. Presented at Symposium for L. Susskind’s 60th Birthday Work supported in part by the U.S. Dept. of Energy under Grant No. DE-FG03-92-ER40701. 1 S-Matrix Theory, Duality, and the Bootst...