Abhishek Gangrade, a researcher at University of Alabama, Birmingham argues why educators must give students a motive to learn science by teaching them to reason.  In this piece titled Why Students should read Scientific Literature, published by the Education Dive, in Oct 2018 read more about the long term and immediate impact of how ‘the ability to reason’  a highly valuable trait currently at risk of being lost in the highly divergent world of Net and social media, can hold the next generation in good stead.
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