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Helping Teachers Self-Experiment Could Boost Learning

Tom Vander Ark | Posted 04.08.2012 | Home
Read More: Innovation, Randomized Controlled Trials, Research and Development, Home News
Tom Vander Ark

We need an order of magnitude increase in education R&D. The recent increase in venture capital is overdue.

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Proven Impact: Better International Development Through Rigorous Research

Tom Murphy | Posted 06.14.2011 | Impact
Read More: Mit, Economics, Research, Africa, Esther Duflo, Mexico, Randomized Controlled Trials, Behavorial Economics, Dean Karlan, Yale, Innovations for Poverty Action, Book Review, Dutton, Book Reviews, Yale University, Rcts, Poverty, Impact News
Tom Murphy

International aid is working, but we do not know why and what works best.

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Health Data is Useful... if it Informs Conversations

Roni Zeiger | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Journal of Participatory Medicine, Health Conversations, E-Patients, Evidence-Based Medicine, Randomized Controlled Trials, Participatory Medicine, Healthy Living News
Roni Zeiger

Even when good evidence suggests a given course of treatment or testing, decisions often include complex pros and cons. What should we do?

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The Mass Production of Mental Illness and What To Do About It

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Thomas Szasz, Dopamine, Walden Two, Dsm, Drug Companies, Richard P. Bentall, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Prozac, Psychosis, Fda, Electroconvulsive Therapy, Schizophrenia, Madness, American Psychiatric Association, Ssris, B. F. Skinner, Neurotransmitters, Evidence-Based Medicine, Treatment of Mental Illness, Psychiatry, Depression, Chlorpromazine, Drug Company Profits, Randomized Controlled Trials, Mental Asylums, Big Pharma, Ect, Placebo, Rose Kennedy, Insulin Coma Therapy, Antipsychiatry, Mental Illness, Pharmaceutical Industry, R. D. Laing, Brain Chemistry, Carl Rogers, Prefrontal Leucotomy, Psychiatric Drugs, Genetics, Psychiatric Practice, Walter Freeman, Emil Kraepelin, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Book Reviews, Books, Books News
Anis Shivani

Dr. Richard P. Bentall, professor and practitioner of clinical psychology in Britain, exposes the highly dubious nature of reigning presumptions about the causes and treatment of mental illness.

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