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Divide and conquer: detecting patterns that explain the big picture.
Alecia Ford had a problem that teachers everywhere face more and more frequently with the predominance of standardized testing--too much world history to teach in too little time. How could she help her sixth-grade students develop an in-depth understanding of the Enlightenment in just two weeks before testing effectively finished the school year? Impossible? Sixth graders were not going to read Rousseau. On the other hand, it was a period of history Alecia, co-author of this article, found fascinating and important. So she devised a plan to divide and conquer the vast information and then pull it all together for a deeper understanding of the significant changes that ...
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