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The Hungry Mind: The Origins of Curiosity in Childhood by...
How might we encourage more curiosity among young people and particularly among those with lower…
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Overloaded and Underprepared: Strategies for Stronger Schools and Healthy, Successful...
Many middle and high school students are exhausted, stressed, tempted by maladaptive behaviors, and not necessarily…
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Creating Cultures of Thinking: The 8 Forces We Must Master...
Do your schools and learning communities promote curiosity, innovation, collaboration, empathy, determination, and analytic thinking?…
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Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Kids Roots and...
Resilience—the ability to recover from a set-back—is one of the most important traits and mindsets…
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Age of Opportunity: Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence...
Laurence Steinberg, professor of psychology at Temple University, provides a compelling call to action grounded…
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Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture, and...
In her 2014 book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture, and Wisdom,…
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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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