Description: Prekins' research indicates that students from the first grade through college often have only the most superficial kind of knowledge even after considerable instruction in a subject. Here he reveals some commonly misguided strategies students use in trying to understand a topic, and why traditional-teaching approaches often fail.
Brief description: David Perkins, Ph.D., is co-director of Harvard Project Zero, one of the foremost research centers in the country on children's learning, and a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.