Dear Readers,
On April 13, 1 943, Nazi Germany announced that it had discovered a mass grave in the Katyn Forest full of Polish prisoners who had been executed three years earlier by the Soviet Union. More than 20,000 Polish military men and influential civilians were killed in Katyn and other camps in Russia, Ukraine and Belorussia.
The Soviet government denied responsibility and the United States and Britain publicly supported the Soviets' claim so as not to offend their ally. It was not until April 13, 1990, that the Soviet Union admitted that it had carried out the Katyn Massacre.
Last year, Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife and 87 other members of a Polish delegation were killed when a plane carrying them to a 70th anniversary commemoration of the massacre crashed.
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April 13 is also Thomas Jefferson's birthday. The third president of the United States of America counted among his many talents architecture, philosophy and writing.
Pre-schools are instituting increasing rigid lesson plans, but are less formal approaches actually more beneficial? Several recent studies find that giving direct instructions to young students has a negative effect on their ability to solve problems. Alison Gopnik, author of a study at UC Berkeley, writes, "While learning from a teacher may help children get to a specific answer more quickly, it also makes them less likely to discover new information about a problem and to create a new and unexpected solution."
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