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HOW LEARNING HAPPENS
Big Bird, played by puppeteer Caroll Spinney, reads to Connor Scott and Tiffany Jiao during a taping of Sesame Street in 2008 in New York Mark Lennihan/AP hide caption
50 Great Teachers LA Johnson/NPR hide caption
Better measurements help make learning visible, says John Hattie. Arthur MacDonald/Internet Archive hide caption
Inside a family's year of kindergarten from KPCC follows the story of kindergartner Gemma Gomez at Eugene Field Elementary, a Mandarin immersion school in Pasadena, Calif. Maya Sugarman/KPCC hide caption
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton visits Trident Technical College on June 17 during a campaign stop in North Charleston, S.C. David Goldman/AP hide caption
Research suggests nearly two-thirds of young people are seriously sleep deprived. Giordano Poloni/Ikon Images/Getty Images hide caption
High school students held a protest against a Jefferson County School Board proposal to emphasize patriotism in the teaching of U.S. history, at Ralston Valley High School, Arvada, Colo., in September. The protests were over the Colorado school district's proposal to promote patriotism and de-emphasize civil disobedience in American history classes. Brennan Linsley/AP hide caption
A boy paints the railings of a wooden fort at the Berkeley Adventure Playground. Nails, hammers and buckets of paint are just part of the fun. David Gilkey/NPR hide caption
Middle-school boys participate in the Minority Male Makers summer program at Morgan State University in Baltimore. Elissa Nadworny/NPR hide caption
Education Secretary Arne Duncan (second from left) speaks with inmate Terrell Johnson, a participant in the Goucher College Prison Education Partnership. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption
White House staff walk into the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, Okla. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption
Cast members of Notre Dame Academy's Godspell perform during the fifth annual Minty Awards for high school theater at the St. George Theatre on Staten Island, N.Y. Kathryn Carse/Landov hide caption
President Obama is the first sitting president to visit a federal prison. Kevin Lamarque/Landov hide caption
High school students in the Johns Hopkins University summer program, Engineering Innovation, compete in an annual spaghetti bridge-building competition. Above: The A'hunna Key-Lows push their bridge to the limit. Below: The Key-Lows' winning bridge shatters — but only after holding 53 pounds. Lydia Thompson/NPR hide caption
Carol McMullen-Pettit (right), a Premier Tutor at The Princeton Review, goes over SAT test preparation with 11th-grader Suzane Nazir in Pembroke Pines, Fla. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
Eliot Elementary in St. Louis, Mo., closed 10 years ago. The building remains empty. Tim Lloyd/ St. Louis Public Radio hide caption
Cooper is known as the Swim Whisperer. He's been teaching swimming full-time since 1995. Elissa Nadworny/NPR hide caption
Rosie The Assistant Principal? LA Johnson/NPR hide caption