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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jane M Healy |
| ISBN: | 0684856204 9780684856209 |
| OCLC Number: | 42467306 |
| Notes: | "A Touchstone book." "Reading group guide inside"--Spine. |
| Description: | viii, 384 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Changing brains -- Language, fuzzy thinking, and the languishing left hemisphere -- Attention, lifestyles, and learning disabilities -- Clashing cultures -- Minds of the future. |
| Responsibility: | Jane M. Healy. |
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Abstract:
The author links the inability of children to concentrate to the electronic media, changes in life-styles, and the decline of literacy.
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"Educational Leadership" A fascinating exploration of today's much-deplored decline in school achievement....[Healy] clearly conveys the relationship between language, learning, and brain development, then explains why television viewing and present-day lifestyles sabotage language acquisition, thinking, and personal success. Read more...
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