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Making Kids #Cleverer - Chapter 5 Can we get cleverer?
Jan 04, 2019 |
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This post summarises the arguments in the fifth chapter of my new book, Making Kids Cleverer. The rest of the chapter summaries can be found here.If intelligence is casually connected with heath, happ...
Making Kids #Cleverer – Chapter 4: Nature via nurture
Jan 03, 2019 |
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This post summarises the arguments in the fourth chapter of my new book, Making Kids Cleverer. The rest of the chapter summaries can be found here.A central consideration to the project of making kids...
Making Kids #Cleverer Chapter 3: Is intelligence the answer?
Jan 02, 2019 |
Category: Featured
This post summarises the arguments in the third chapter of my new book, Making Kids Cleverer. The rest of the chapter summaries can be found here.Whatever it is you value, intelligence seems to be int...
Making Kids #Cleverer – Chapter 2: Built by culture
Jan 01, 2019 |
Category: Featured
This is the second of a series of posts summarising the arguments in my new book, Making Kids Cleverer.
The second chapter reviews some what we know from evolutionary biology, evolutionary psycholo...
Making Kids #Cleverer - Chapter 1: The purpose of education
Dec 31, 2018 |
Category: Featured
This is the first of a series of posts about the arguments in my new book, Making Kids Cleverer. The intention is, obviously, to sharpen your appetite in the hope that you'll actually give it a read.I...
My most read posts of 2018
Dec 31, 2018 |
Category: Featured
After almost 8 years of blogging, I find myself becoming more erratic and less concerned about updating the site. That said, I still manage to write 61 posts over the course of 2018. These are the pos...
Making Kids #Cleverer - a summary
Dec 30, 2018 |
Category: Featured
At long last, my new book, Making Kids Cleverer: A manifesto for closing the advantage gap, is out in the world. The argument is divided into 10 chapters and a conclusion and, over the coming days and...
The best books I've read since June
Dec 17, 2018 |
Category: Featured
Back in June I posted on the books I had found most interesting and enjoyable during the first half of the year. They were: Factfulness by Hans Rosling, Enlightenment Now by Stephen Pinker, Skin in th...
Do children succeed despite or because of what we do?
Dec 03, 2018 |
Category: curriculum
One of the most beguiling assumptions in teaching is that children succeed in school because of what schools and teachers do. We feel this to be true because we're acutely aware of all the things we'v...
Breadth trumps depth
Dec 02, 2018 |
Category: curriculum
According to Teacher Tapp, 56% of teachers reckon their schools start GCSE courses at some point during Year 9.Part of the justification for this approach is that Key Stage 3 has sometimes had a reput...
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