LOST AT SCHOOL The premise of this book is that kids with behavioral challenges lack important thinking skills, an idea supported by research in the neurosciences over the past thirty years on kids who are aggressive and have difficulty getting along with people and those diagnosed with ADHD, mood […]
Monthly Archives: January 2017
Mary Anne Wolf speaks about Tufts’ University effort to spread Open Source Reading Programs around the world: Mary Anne Wolf Speaks on Dyslexia
Global Literacy, The Reading Brain, and the Development of Empathy
Ken Robinson – Do Schools Kill Creativity? 2006 TED Talk Ken Robinson: Bring on the Learning Revolution! 2010 Ted Talk Ken Robinson: How To Escape Education’s Death Valley 2013
Do Schools Kill Creativity?
See how how Ritalin chemically affects the brain. Also view Dr. Peter Breggin’s testimony before the House Committee on Veteran’s Affairs. Click here. “Adolescent addiction is particularly pernicious because over a long period of usage, the brain responds to the hyperactivity of dopamine by reducing dopamine receptors, and a loss […]