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Military Family-the Stuhlfires
When her daughter was 2 years old, Colleen Stuhlfire started to think about her education and decided that she would school her child at home. Her decision was based on conversations with other military families who spoke of the strain on children who often change schools because of multiple redeployments, coupled with curriculums that vary [...]
Set the Mind for Success
“It’s not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.” –Alfred Binet, inventor of the IQ test How many times have you heard your student say, “I got 100 percent on the test, I’m so smart”? Or, seen him or her complain about a challenge because he or she claims not [...]
Memories are Made of This
Oh, those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer reading, when you can flop backwards on the couch, slump against a tree trunk, or sprawl on the sand and just take in the pages for pure pleasure. Yes, it’s good for you, but let’s just ignore the undeniable educational benefits and concentrate on the joy of [...]
"Read to live."
“Read to live.” – Gustav Flaubert, 19th century French author So often we hear about the importance of reading and reading achievement that we forget about the simple enjoyment of sitting down with a great book and purely enjoying a story as it unfolds on the pages before us. As summer is fast approaching, my letter [...]
5 Myths About the Mind - Part II
Expert minds just know more things than regular minds do This is odd—what else are experts, except folks who just know more stuff? It turns out that expertise is a lot more than just “knowing stuff.” A few years back, cognitive scientists ran an experiment to compare what graduate students in physics were able to do with [...]