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Some children with color vision problems are labeled "learning-disabled" if they can't follow instructions.
Even with more than 30 years in politics behind him, Mr Chirac has a steep learning-curve ahead.
He had grown attracted to the specialty after fighting for his learning-disabled child.
This month's show is all about learning -- but don't worry, it's a lot more fun than it sounds.
The sales pitch of one learning-style tester declares: "Knowing exactly how to speak to each individual will eliminate this problem forever!"
It also helps Chinese students develop confidence, initiative, commitment and active learning -- all qualities that are cherished by our higher institutions.
The study partly blamed this on the local council's imposition of learning-by-discovery.
In contrast, those with a learning-oriented attitude continue to plug away until they reach their goal, like The Little Engine That Could.
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Learning-style theory proposes that each of us absorbs and processes information in one of several distinct ways: visual, auditory, tactile or kinesthetic, for example.
Parents want to work, and work is the best way to engage them in training and learning - which in turn rubs off on their kids.
Studies, where they exist, are conducted with small groups, may not be peer-reviewed or published and are frequently carried out by learning-style proponents rather than neutral investigators.
Since it made the leap to the workplace a few years ago, companies like Bank of America, Cendant, Adidas and Levi Strauss have climbed aboard the learning-style bandwagon.
Others were first called learning-disabled, mentally retarded or mentally ill.
At best, videogames and DVDs geared to children may be able to complement other forms of learning--kind of like how sugary cereals can be part of a complete breakfast.
"It enables our clients to put into practice some of the skills they've been learning -- how to manage different team members' strengths, and manage around their weaknesses, " said Tilley.
This kind of thinking constitutes a learning-oriented attitude.
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The Tories will also publish a poster today, as their opponents gather in Manchester for their conference, saying Labour isn't learning - their claim being that Labour isn't learning from its past mistakes of borrowing too much money.
And I think that that requires more than just rote learning -- although it certainly requires good habits and discipline in school -- it also requires that in the classroom they're getting the kind of creative teaching that's so important.
But above all, what Nintendo has learned from its research over the past few decades -- and what television makers and rival game companies like Sony Computer Entertainment are learning -- is that 3-D plus glasses is a losing formula, Nintendo executives said.
And for less than 1 percent of what America spends on education each year, Race to the Top has led over 40 states to raise their standards for teaching and learning -- standards, by the way, that were developed not in Washington but by Republican and Democratic governors all across the country.
Although learning-by-discovery is being phased out of schools, the government seems prepared to accept that it is right for nursery pupils: ministers are said to have noted that in the successful education systems of Switzerland and Hungary, pupils start in the nursery with play-based education and then switch to traditional teaching at the age of six or seven.
Asked about how different such e-learning centres would be from community multimedia centres, he explained that the e-learning centres would be solar-powered, genuinely community-led, and dependent on local expertise.
Mike Taylor, of e-learning company Equiinet, said schools should be allowed to spend their "e-learning credits" on hardware that would run such media-rich materials.
That audience is attractive to e-learning companies -- from correspondence programs that have hopped online to Net-only operations peddling curricula by the month or by the course.
Done well, the competition could be just the national motivation the digital-learning movement has needed to see large-scale adoption of high-quality blended-learning programs.
The efforts of these organizations and many other like-minded groups are part of a national movement that would make social and emotional learning a free-standing, required learning standard for grades pre-k through 12.
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