That will supposedly be done over the next four years, during which time the researchers will work with language development specialists who normally study how parents teach children to speak.

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Further, study of the captured space rock could teach researchers how to efficiently extract water from asteroids a resource that could be an off-Earth source of radiation shielding and rocket fuel for journeying spacecraft.

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The successful few study for at least five years and are actually taught how to teach (you would be surprised how rare this is on teacher-training courses).

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In my discipline, for example, each school differs slightly on how to teach general chemistry, varies in where inorganic chemistry is placed in the plan of study, and has different laboratory equipment and thus varying lab curricula, etc.

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As an academic specializing in the study of culture over time, I have spent my career looking for ways to teach rising generations about how our perceptions of gender roles influence everything from glass ceilings in the workplace to the way we treat our friends and neighbors.

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