Seize Your Copy A Mirror For Americans Outlined By Cornelius N. Grove Formatted As Copy

interesting. I have a couple of friends in education that I will be sharing this book with, I won this book through goodreads, I enjoyed the book I really had to take a look ant how I have learnt and how I am teaching my own children.
I really wish this book would influence schools to rethink the way children are taught I public schools.
I know and the author clearly points out that the Asian why is not possible here in America but we could institute some of what makes quality education great is allowing students to participate in their excellent by valuing what each person brings to the table.
The best thing was that the book was engaging and well written a novice sought as my self was able to understand clearing why What is the explanation for American students comparatively mediocre academic performance A Mirror for Americans finds part of it in how they are taught in primary schools.
Comparisons with East Asian teaching are supplied byyears of research findings, Grove asks not that we copy East Asian teaching approaches, but that we use them as a mirror to gain insights into typically American approaches and their underlying values, which are handicapping our childrens learning.
Why is it that, on the international comparative tests, American students always attain middling scores while students from China, Japan, Taiwan, and Korea always attain top scores Every single test since! Why As an interculturalist and an educator, I was professionally equipped to discover the answer.
I wondered whether there might be deep, systemic differences between East Asian and American societies that lead to this recurring outcome.
So I set myself a multi year mission to discover the answer, In three short books, written in readily understandable

language, I discuss with my readers the answers I dug up through thanyears of scholarly exploration: THE APTITUDE MYTH looks at the problem historically, reaching all the wa Why is it that, on the international comparative tests, American students always attain middling scores while students from China, Japan, Taiwan, and Korea always attain top scores Every single test since! Why As an interculturalist and an educator, I was professionally equipped to discover the answer.
I wondered whether there might be deep, systemic differences between East Asian and American societies that lead to this recurring outcome.
So I set myself a multi year mission to discover the answer, In three short books, written in readily understandable language, I discuss with my readers the answers I dug up through thanyears of scholarly exploration: THE APTITUDE MYTH looks at the problem historically, reaching all the way back to ancient Greece.
Its a history of the American belief that high academic grades are the result, not of long effort, but of high inborn intelligence.
text pages. sitelink www. theaptitudemyth. info. THE DRIVE TO LEARN is the first of two “sister volumes” that ask why East Asian children become superior students.
This book reveals how their parents raise them at home, which is very different from how American children are raised.
text pages. sitelink www. thedrivetolearn. info. A MIRROR FOR AMERICANS is the second “sister volume” it tells the other half of the story about why East Asian children are superior students.
It reveals the ways they are taught in East Asian preschools and primary schools,text pages. sitelink www. amirrorforamericans. info. The title of the book Im now writing is HOW OTHER CHILDREN LEARN, It will enable American readers to consider child rearing practices that originate in societies where everyday life is vastly different from ours far different than even the daily lives of East Asians! Im now researching child rearing among the QUECHUA of Peru, the NAVAJOS of the U.
S. Southwest, the ARABS of the Levant, the INDIANS of Northern India, and the AKA PIGMIES of Central Africa.
All five are fascinating societies to explore and write about, keeping me contentedly busy during Covid lockdown.
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