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Author : Ronald A. Wolk
Publisher : ASCD
ISBN 13 : 1416611312
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (166 download)
Download or read book Wasting Minds written by Ronald A. Wolk and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2011 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a smart and tightly reasoned critique of the educational status quo.
Author : Jan Davidson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416595686
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Genius Denied written by Jan Davidson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With all the talk of failing schools these days, we forget that schools can fail their brightest students, too. We pledge to "leave no child behind," but in American schools today, thousands of gifted and talented students fall short of their potential. In Genius Denied, Jan and Bob Davidson describe the "quiet crisis" in education: gifted students spending their days in classrooms learning little beyond how to cope with boredom as they "relearn" material they've already mastered years before. This lack of challenge leads to frustration, underachievement, and even failure. Some gifted students become severely depressed. At a time when our country needs a deep intellectual talent pool, the squandering of these bright young minds is a national tragedy. There are hundreds of thousands of highly gifted children in the U.S. and millions more whose intelligence is above average, yet few receive the education they deserve. Many school districts have no gifted programs or offer only token enrichment classes. Education of the gifted is in this sorry state, say the Davidsons, because of indifference, lack of funding, and the pernicious notion that education should have a "leveling" effect, a one-size-fits-all concept that deliberately ignores the needs of the gifted. But all children are entitled to an appropriate education, insist the authors, those left behind as well as those who want to surge ahead. The Davidsons show parents and educators how to reach and challenge gifted students. They offer practical advice based on their experience as founders of a nonprofit organization that assists gifted children. They show parents how to become their children's advocates, how to win support for gifted students within the local schools, and when and how to go outside the school system. They discuss everything from acceleration ("skipping" a grade) to homeschooling and finding mentors for children. They tell stories of real parents and students who overcame poor schooling environments to discover the joy of learning. Genius Denied is an inspiring book that provides a beacon of hope for children at risk of losing their valuable gift of intellectual potential.
Author : Catherine Coleman Flowers
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620976099
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Waste written by Catherine Coleman Flowers and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The MacArthur grant–winning environmental justice activist’s riveting memoir of a life fighting for a cleaner future for America’s most vulnerable A Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best Science Book of 2020 Catherine Coleman Flowers, a 2020 MacArthur “genius,” grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that’s been called “Bloody Lowndes” because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it’s Ground Zero for a new movement that is also Flowers’s life’s work—a fight to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the rural poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly of the waste from their toilets and, as a consequence, live amid filth. Flowers calls this America’s dirty secret. In this “powerful and moving book” (Booklist), she tells the story of systemic class, racial, and geographic prejudice that foster Third World conditions not just in Alabama, but across America, in Appalachia, Central California, coastal Florida, Alaska, the urban Midwest, and on Native American reservations in the West. In this inspiring story of the evolution of an activist, from country girl to student civil rights organizer to environmental justice champion at Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative, Flowers shows how sanitation is becoming too big a problem to ignore as climate change brings sewage to more backyards—not only those of poor minorities.
Author : Henry Calderwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Relations of Mind and Brain written by Henry Calderwood and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Lightman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501154370
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book In Praise of Wasting Time written by Alan Lightman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely and essential book that offers a fresh take on the qualms of modern day life, Professor Alan Lightman investigates the creativity born from allowing our minds to freely roam, without attempting to accomplish anything and without any assigned tasks. We are all worried about wasting time. Especially in the West, we have created a frenzied lifestyle in which the twenty-four hours of each day are carved up, dissected, and reduced down to ten minute units of efficiency. We take our iPhones and laptops with us on vacation. We check email at restaurants or our brokerage accounts while walking in the park. When the school day ends, our children are overloaded with “extras.” Our university curricula are so crammed our young people don’t have time to reflect on the material they are supposed to be learning. Yet in the face of our time-driven existence, a great deal of evidence suggests there is great value in “wasting time,” of letting the mind lie fallow for some periods, of letting minutes and even hours go by without scheduled activities or intended tasks. Gustav Mahler routinely took three or four-hour walks after lunch, stopping to jot down ideas in his notebook. Carl Jung did his most creative thinking and writing when he visited his country house. In his 1949 autobiography, Albert Einstein described how his thinking involved letting his mind roam over many possibilities and making connections between concepts that were previously unconnected. With In Praise of Wasting Time, Professor Alan Lightman documents the rush and heave of the modern world, suggests the technological and cultural origins of our time-driven lives, and examines the many values of “wasting time”—for replenishing the mind, for creative thought, and for finding and solidifying the inner self. Break free from the idea that we must not waste a single second, and discover how sometimes the best thing to do is to do nothing at all.
Author : John Thompson Dickson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Science and Practice of Medicine in Relation to Mind written by John Thompson Dickson and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Henry Butter Stoddart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mind and Its Disorders written by William Henry Butter Stoddart and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Journal of Medicine and Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Stern
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1106 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book American Artisan, Tinner and House Furnisher written by Daniel Stern and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 892 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Brain written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed at researchers and clinicians, this journal of neurology balances studies in neurological science with practical clinical articles.
Author : Louis Albert Morphy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Poems and Prose Sketches written by Louis Albert Morphy and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Artisan written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Cambridge Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 998 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The American Artisan and Hardware Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Great Thoughts from Master Minds written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 930 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Montreal Pharmaceutical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Godlove Raue
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Special Pathology and Diagnostics, with Therapeutic Hints written by Charles Godlove Raue and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
