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Engage students’ brains with state-of-the-art literacy strategies. This reference infuses the most current neurology research into concrete steps for targeted, developmentally appropriate reading instruction.
Motivation and Ability to Learn Through the Grades: How Different is an Adolescent's Brain?
Motivation and Ability to Learn Through the Grades: How Different is an Adolescent's Brain?
Parents and educators have been exposed to media reports of the many neurological changes happening to children as they gain adult bodies and mature minds. But, reports from experts may focus too much on the problems of adolescence. As a people, we are doing better for our youth. An article from Time and CNN (Cloud, 2007) tells parents to relax. Statistics tell us young adults in the United States are getting smarter and making decisions that are better than teens did in the 1990s. Also, there is less drug, tobacco, and alcohol use. Teen pregnancy and suicide rates ...
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