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The Marshmallow Test by Walter Mischel, PhD
“I think, therefore I can change what I am.” Walter Mischel, a Columbia University psychology…
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Raising Kids Who Read: What Parents and Teachers Can Do...
Raising Kids Who Read: What Parents and Teachers Can Do suggests that the best way…
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Future Wise: Educating Our Children for a Changing World by...
What is worth knowing? What should students learn in school? Or, as the insolent student…
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Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon?: Why China Has...
Amidst the adoption of controversial Common Core state standards and as students across the U.S….
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The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing...
Because the 2014 writing guide Steven Pinker authored is truly essential for improving writing, all…
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Mental Biology: The New Science of How the Brain and...
“I will become what I think” (p. 14). Texas A&M professor W.R. Klemm explains in…
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How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where and...
In his 2014 book, How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When Where and Why…
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Smart but Stuck: Emotions in Teens and Adults with ADHD...
Dr. Thomas E. Brown, clinical psychologist, Yale University professor of psychiatry, and associate director of…
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The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information...
Daniel Levitin argues that people’s junk drawer, the place they store miscellanea, is a fitting…
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Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter...
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning offers students, educators, and life-long learners suggestions…
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