Robert Slavin, Who Studied How Children Learn, Dies at 70
Robert Slavin, Who Studied How Children Learn, Dies at 70 He favored phonics to teach reading and grouping students with different aptitudes rather than by age or grade. The education professor Robert Slavin in an undated photo. He was an early proponent of cooperative learning, an approach through which small teams of students with different academic abilities worked together. Credit...Will Kirk/Johns Hopkins University May 11, 2021 Robert E. Slavin, a sociologist whose rigorous research into how children learn helped shift the emphasis in classrooms across the country toward teaching readi...
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