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Congressman Sestak is pleased to announce the establishment of The 21st Century National Center for Cognition and Science Instruction in Conshohocken through a $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The award was given to a consortium of three Pennsylvania universities, two nonprofit organizations, scores of middle schools and the Pennsylvania and Delaware Departments of Education to draw upon the advancements in the field of cognitive science - how the mind receives, processes, stores and retrieves information and knowledge - to develop and evaluate theoretically driven modifications to existing middle school science curricula to improve student learning. Schools from Delaware and Montgomery Counties will be among the at least 180 middle schools involved.