Download or read book How a Poor Student Became the World s Smartest Man written by Ted H Gordon and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was designed to improve students' confidence and create a better self-concept and appreciation of a students' own abilities. It was field tested for five years in a public school classroom to ensure that all the vocabulary, content, and messages were appropriate for young and also emergent readers. This book is targeted at three types of students: 1. Ages 4 to 6, as a book read to them. In the five-year study, two teachers both reported an amazing 35% to 40% of parents mentioned the book at the teacher-parent conference. Neither teacher had ever had such a successful response from students telling their parents about the book. 2. Age 5 to 7, for a book to read. Early reading students will find this book an enjoyable book with a positive self-image message. It is only 28 pages of text, with three short chapters, so new readers will not feel overwhelmed. 3. Age 8 to 12 for emergent readers. For older students ("emergent readers") reading, this book gives the reader a chance to believe in themselves. Far too often, struggling students think they are dumb and give up in school. Their self-image is so poor that they feel there will be no benefit gained by trying harder. For Emergent Readers: These students are older students learning to read, usually a year or two, or more, behind grade level. Some of these students give up because all they see ahead is failure. If they try, they fail. If they do nothing, they fail. Worse, yet, their self-image sees no purpose in exerting themselves, which intensifies a vicious cycle. This self-defeating cycle is often unnecessary, for the techniques and skills available to today's teachers permit students the opportunity to reach their potential. One of the first steps in helping the student is to change his or her perceptions and realize that past failures do not necessarily mean a future of continual disappointment. This book is designed to help the student begin to change his or her self-image. The student realizes that others can feel the same way. This book also shows students that someone many considered the world's smartest man was also a struggling student. He overcame his obstacles and offer inspiration to us all.
Download or read book The Smartest Kids in the World written by Amanda Ripley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following three teenagers who chose to spend one school year living in Finland, South Korea, and Poland, a literary journalist recounts how attitudes, parenting, and rigorous teaching have revolutionized these countries' education results.
Download or read book Factfulness written by Hans Rosling and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “One of the most important books I’ve ever read—an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.” – Bill Gates “Hans Rosling tells the story of ‘the secret silent miracle of human progress’ as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly.” —Melinda Gates "Factfulness by Hans Rosling, an outstanding international public health expert, is a hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases." - Former U.S. President Barack Obama Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends—what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school—we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective—from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse). Our problem is that we don’t know what we don’t know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases. It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. That doesn’t mean there aren’t real concerns. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most. Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future. --- “This book is my last battle in my life-long mission to fight devastating ignorance...Previously I armed myself with huge data sets, eye-opening software, an energetic learning style and a Swedish bayonet for sword-swallowing. It wasn’t enough. But I hope this book will be.” Hans Rosling, February 2017.
Download or read book The Last Lecture written by Randy Pausch and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Download or read book The Privileged Poor written by Anthony Abraham Jack and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NPR Favorite Book of the Year “Breaks new ground on social and educational questions of great import.” —Washington Post “An essential work, humane and candid, that challenges and expands our understanding of the lives of contemporary college students.” —Paul Tough, author of Helping Children Succeed “Eye-opening...Brings home the pain and reality of on-campus poverty and puts the blame squarely on elite institutions.” —Washington Post “Jack’s investigation redirects attention from the matter of access to the matter of inclusion...His book challenges universities to support the diversity they indulge in advertising.” —New Yorker The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors—and their coffers—to support a more diverse student body. But is it enough just to admit these students? In this bracing exposé, Anthony Jack shows that many students’ struggles continue long after they’ve settled in their dorms. Admission, they quickly learn, is not the same as acceptance. This powerfully argued book documents how university policies and campus culture can exacerbate preexisting inequalities and reveals why some students are harder hit than others.
Download or read book The Know It All written by A. J. Jacobs and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-10-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography detailing the comic effects on Jacobs' life that occur when he attempts to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica volumes A to Z.
Download or read book Christian Citizen Wise Up written by Sylvanus Diel and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exposing the evil in government, the country, and churches, Diel also suggests ways to correct the situation, improve life in general, and bring unity to the faith. (Practical Life)
Download or read book The Smart Set written by George Jean Nathan and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Man Who Can Change the World Through Education written by Pravin Bhatia and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word education comes from the Latin word educare, which means to draw out information, ideas, and excellence from students. But most teachers pump information into students, and the results have not been pretty. Many students cant think creatively, and they end up living mediocre lives. Dr. Ranchhodas Mohota has developed a technique to upgrade the minds of the students, and youll find out what it is and how to use it in this book. It will help you develop the intelligence of students while bolstering their creativity, concentration, and admirable qualities such as positive thinking, courage, and persistence. More than six million students have been helped by this technique, which is simple to implement and easy to use. The technique incorporates all the parameters of education incorporated in Indias National Curriculum Framework that it adopted in 2005. The prevalent system of teaching continues to fail, and schools and universities still churn out graduates who are not academically gifted. Give students tools to succeed with the teaching technique in The Man Who Can Change the World Through Education.
Download or read book Income Inequality and IQ written by Charles A. Murray and published by A E I Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using data from the National longitudinal Study of Youth, argues that intelligence quotient has an important effect on income independent of family background.
Download or read book There Are No Shortcuts written by Rafe Esquith and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-11-19 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Year after year, Rafe Esquith’s fifth-grade students excel. They read passionately, far above their grade level; tackle algebra; and stage Shakespeare so professionally that they often wow the great Shakespearen actor himself, Sir Ian McKellen. Yet Esquith teaches at an L.A. innercity school known as the Jungle, where few of his students speak English at home, and many are from poor or troubled families. What’s his winning recipe? A diet of intensive learning mixed with a lot of kindness and fun. His kids attend class from 6:30 A.M. until well after 4:00 P.M., right through most of their vacations. They take field trips to Europe and Yosemite. They play rock and roll. Mediocrity has no place in their classroom. And the results follow them for life, as they go on to colleges such as Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford. Possessed by a fierce idealism, Esquith works even harder than his students. As an outspoken maverick of public education (his heroes include Huck Finn and Atticus Finch), he admits to significant mistakes and heated fights with administrators and colleagues. We all—teachers, parents, citizens—have much to learn from his candor and uncompromising vision.
Download or read book High School Students who Later Became Schizophrenic written by Eli Michael Bower and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cognitive Theoretic Model of the Universe A New Kind of Reality Theory written by Christopher Michael Langan and published by Mega Foundation Press. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paperback version of the 2002 paper published in the journal Progress in Information, Complexity, and Design (PCID). ABSTRACT Inasmuch as science is observational or perceptual in nature, the goal of providing a scientific model and mechanism for the evolution of complex systems ultimately requires a supporting theory of reality of which perception itself is the model (or theory-to-universe mapping). Where information is the abstract currency of perception, such a theory must incorporate the theory of information while extending the information concept to incorporate reflexive self-processing in order to achieve an intrinsic (self-contained) description of reality. This extension is associated with a limiting formulation of model theory identifying mental and physical reality, resulting in a reflexively self-generating, self-modeling theory of reality identical to its universe on the syntactic level. By the nature of its derivation, this theory, the Cognitive Theoretic Model of the Universe or CTMU, can be regarded as a supertautological reality-theoretic extension of logic. Uniting the theory of reality with an advanced form of computational language theory, the CTMU describes reality as a Self Configuring Self-Processing Language or SCSPL, a reflexive intrinsic language characterized not only by self-reference and recursive self-definition, but full self-configuration and self-execution (reflexive read-write functionality). SCSPL reality embodies a dual-aspect monism consisting of infocognition, self-transducing information residing in self-recognizing SCSPL elements called syntactic operators. The CTMU identifies itself with the structure of these operators and thus with the distributive syntax of its self-modeling SCSPL universe, including the reflexive grammar by which the universe refines itself from unbound telesis or UBT, a primordial realm of infocognitive potential free of informational constraint. Under the guidance of a limiting (intrinsic) form of anthropic principle called the Telic Principle, SCSPL evolves by telic recursion, jointly configuring syntax and state while maximizing a generalized self-selection parameter and adjusting on the fly to freely-changing internal conditions. SCSPL relates space, time and object by means of conspansive duality and conspansion, an SCSPL-grammatical process featuring an alternation between dual phases of existence associated with design and actualization and related to the familiar wave-particle duality of quantum mechanics. By distributing the design phase of reality over the actualization phase, conspansive spacetime also provides a distributed mechanism for Intelligent Design, adjoining to the restrictive principle of natural selection a basic means of generating information and complexity. Addressing physical evolution on not only the biological but cosmic level, the CTMU addresses the most evident deficiencies and paradoxes associated with conventional discrete and continuum models of reality, including temporal directionality and accelerating cosmic expansion, while preserving virtually all of the major benefits of current scientific and mathematical paradigms.
Download or read book Outliers written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-11-18 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Blink and The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: The Story of Success overturns conventional wisdom about genius to show us what makes an ordinary person an extreme overachiever. Why do some people achieve so much more than others? Can they lie so far out of the ordinary? In this provocative and inspiring book, Malcolm Gladwell looks at everyone from rock stars to professional athletes, software billionaires to scientific geniuses, to show that the story of success is far more surprising, and far more fascinating, than we could ever have imagined. He reveals that it's as much about where we're from and what we do, as who we are - and that no one, not even a genius, ever makes it alone. Outliers will change the way you think about your own life story, and about what makes us all unique. 'Gladwell is not only a brilliant storyteller; he can see what those stories tell us, the lessons they contain' Guardian 'Malcolm Gladwell is a global phenomenon ... he has a genius for making everything he writes seem like an impossible adventure' Observer 'He is the best kind of writer - the kind who makes you feel like you're a genius, rather than he's a genius' The Times
Download or read book Reprogram Your Mind for Success and Happiness written by Cleophus Jackson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone wants to know the secret to success. Unfortunately, too many in this world suffer from low self-esteem, a lack of self-confidence, and little motivation. In his self-help guidebook Reprogram Your Mind for Success and Happiness, author Cleophus Jackson shares inspirational methods that teach others how to discover their hidden powers and train their minds to begin believing that they too can become successful, happy, and self-fulfilled. Jackson believes that within each of us there is a power just waiting to be awakened-the kind of power that can help us achieve anything in life. With encouragement, any of us can change our methods of thinking that paralyze us and prevent us from achieving success. Jackson shares a step-by-step process that leans heavily on trusting spiritual guidance in order to make decisions, learn to love ourselves, set goals, change habits, take risks, and create a clear vision for the future. Reprogram Your Mind for Success and Happiness traces a path out of the darkness of insecurity and into the light of achievement, where dreams really do come true.
Download or read book The Kids are Smart Enough So What s the Problem written by Richard W. Garrett and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a national crisis in education, and it’s not the highly-debated philosophical discussions or heated political arguments we are used to hearing. Survey data establishes the fact that classrooms throughout the nation suffer from the presence of a small percentage of misbehaving students. Teachers are ill-equipped to deal with these disruptive students, resulting in lost classroom time and demoralized educators who are perpetually blamed for the student’s bad performance. The root cause of these misbehaving children is not a lack of intellectual ability, but a lack of character and grit; the important noncognative skills required for success in life. The Kids are Smart Enough is a book of hope with surprisingly practical solutions revealed by listening to teachers, learning from data, and looking for the root cause. This book will help you to discover how struggling students can be reached and teachers encouraged.
Download or read book The Modern Student s Book of English Literature written by Harry Morgan Ayres and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
