Mastering multitasking

Educational Leadership

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 15-19

  Gasser, Urs ^a,b   Palfrey, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

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