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From WILL - Afternoon Magazine - August 10, 2009

Why Don’t Students Like School? A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and

With Daniel T. Willingham, Ph.D. (Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia)

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