My acquaintance with Ned Seeman began in the Caltech library sometime during 1992. At the time I was trying to design a DNA computer and was collecting papers in an attempt to learn all the biochemical tricks ever performed with DNA. Among the papers was Ned and Junghuei Chen's beautiful construction of a DNA cube [1]. I had no idea how to harness such a marvel for computation – the diagrams ex...

In high accountability cultures, primary phase literacy education tends to focus on improving children’s test scores. Driven by each country’s performance in international league tables, this results narrow, predominantly skills-based programmes designed address attainment gaps. While scores may have been enhanced recent years, there is little evidence that policy directives positioned the live...

All scientists depend on both reading and writing to do their scientific work. It is of paramount importance to ensure that students have a relevant repertoire of practices they can employ when facing scientific content inside and outside the school context. The present study reports on students in seventh grade acting as researchers. Over an 8-week collaborative research period, students posed...

this study seeks to examine how teachers’ educational background (those who have educated in tefl in comparison to those who have educated in literature) may influence their beliefs and attitudes on language learning, teaching and the teaching methods they apply in their classes. on a general basis, depending on teachers’ opinion, learning process might be seen as behavioristic, inductive, inte...