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Gifted Testing

What’s the secret to parenting a gifted child?

A favorite book of mine from way back in the college days was written by Desmond Morris, the book, the Naked Ape. The following excerpt is from a discussion thread involving Desmond Morris, long-time researcher of human and animal behavior, reporter Tralee Pearce, and Rosanna Del Grosso, the newly elected president for the Association for [...]

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Do We Give Up On Kids?

It’s ridiculous to look at a two year old and think, “this kid can’t put together a decent sentence or read or even do simple math. He’s a moron. He’ll never amount to anything.” It would be absolutely ridiculous to even have thoughts like this. It is reasonable to think in the other direction, “oh, [...]

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Gifted Testing and Assesment

There are more test for giftedness than there are questions about getting children tested. Some of the most prominent on the web can be misleading and give you a sense that your child has well, more of something than they will have to work for. The following is a very intense article on the assessment [...]

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What Does Gifted Mean? Is My Child Gifted?

As a member of the National Association for Gifted Children I have watched the struggle over definitions, testing and funding for gifted education. One of the things that I’m most amazed at is how we want to label children and categorize them as gifted. I advise against the label, even though it seems to make [...]

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Math Made Harder

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Pediatricians Buy Into Parenting Myths: [study]

Some pediatricians buy into parenting myths: study – CTV News. Its interesting to see how we respond to the more respected people in culture beleiveing in myths espeicailly myths about kids. It’s been going on a long time, remember Zeus? http://bestchildblog.org/?p=295

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Education Futures – Project Dream School

Education Futures – Project Dream School. As a fan of Sir Kenneth Robinson I cannot wait to see what they come up with.

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Schools Are Imploding

Schools Are Imploding In the school district where we live, the school district is the largest property owner. Not in the number of acres but in the overall value of real property, the school district holds more real estate than anyone or any company. And they want more! The few other schools districts I’ve looked [...]

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Kindergartners Are Smarter Than CEOs

Kindergartners show an ability to solve problems more creatively than recent MBA graduates. Children are born with the intrinsic motivation, to create, to learn, to solve problems. Somewhere along the line, about 12 years old, we beat that out of them. It is also interesting to see how financial incentives reduced performance, until after the [...]

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My Baby Can Read!

Really? That’s great. I was up late reading and decided to turn on the weather station get the updated forecast for the morning. Before I could flip the channel I was hooked by a commercial that claims to teach babies to read. Very well done, brilliant! My first question is, why? Why would you need [...]

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