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Endangered minds : why children don't think--and what we can do about it
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Endangered minds : why children don't think--and what we can do about it

Author: Jane M Healy
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, [1999]
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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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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"Educational Leadership" A fascinating exploration of today's much-deplored decline in school achievement....[Healy] clearly conveys the relationship between language, learning, and brain Read more...

 
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