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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"The 'Flynn effect' is a surprising finding, identified by James R. Flynn, that IQ test scores have significantly increased from one generation to the next over the past century. Flynn now brings us an exciting new book which aims to make sense of this rise in IQ scores and considers what this tells us about our intelligence, our minds and society. Are We Getting Smarter? features fascinating new material on a variety of topics including the effects...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Everyone agrees that education is the key to creating a more just and equal world, and that the schools are broken and failing. Proposed reforms variously target incompetent teachers, corrupt union practices, or outdated curricula, but no one acknowledges a scientifically proven fact that people all understand intuitively: academic potential varies between individuals, and cannot be dramatically improved. In this audiobook, educator and outspoken...
Author
Publisher
Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Clinician, researcher, and professor Lynn Kern Koegel, PhD, and writer Claire LaZebnik explore the ways in which the intelligence and abilities of children and young adults with autism are often overlooked and misjudged, and share interventions to bring out their full potential"--
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Language
English
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Description
"The charges of white privilege and systemic racism that are tearing the country apart fIoat free of reality. Two known facts, long since documented beyond reasonable doubt, need to be brought into the open and incorporated into the way we think about public policy: American whites, blacks, Hispanics, and Asians have different violent crime rates and different means and distributions of cognitive ability. The allegations of racism in policing, college...
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