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Scientists have shown bilingualism to be brain-changing. It can also be life-changing.
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- De: Julie Lythcott-Haims
- Narrado por: Julie Lythcott-Haims
- Duración: 20 h y 21 m
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What does it mean to be an adult? In the 20th century, psychologists came up with five markers of adulthood: finish your education, get a job, leave home, marry, and have children. Since then, every generation has been held to those same markers. Yet so much has changed about the world and living in it since that sequence was formulated. All of those markers are choices, and they’re all valid, but any one person’s choices along those lines do not make them more or less an adult.
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Not the book that was advertised
- De M. Rogers en 04-13-21
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Whatever It Takes
- Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
- De: Paul Tough
- Narrado por: Ax Norman
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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What would it take?That was the question that Geoffrey Canada found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor children, not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that could be replicated nationwide? The question led him to create the Harlem Children's Zone, a 97-block laboratory in central Harlem where he is testing new and sometimes controversial ideas about poverty in America.
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Aboslutely terrific!
- De Anthony en 09-21-10
De: Paul Tough
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Unschooled
- Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom
- De: Kerry Mcdonald, Peter Grey PhD
- Narrado por: Lesa Lockford
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
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In a compelling narrative that introduces historical and contemporary research on self-directed education, Unschooled also spotlights how a diverse group of individuals and organizations are evolving an old schooling model of education. These innovators challenge the myth that children need to be taught in order to learn.
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Not for parents
- De online shopper en 05-24-20
De: Kerry Mcdonald, y otros
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Now You See It
- How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn
- De: Cathy N. Davidson
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 13 h y 53 m
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When Duke University gave free iPods to the freshman class in 2003, critics said they were wasting their money. Yet when the students in practically every discipline invented academic uses for the music players, suddenly the idea could be seen in a new light - as an innovative way to turn learning on its head. Using cutting-edge research on the brain, Cathy N. Davidson show how attention blindness has produced one of our society's greatest challenges.
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3 Reasons to Read
- De Joshua Kim en 05-06-12
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The Global Achievement Gap
- Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills our Children Need - and What We Can Do About it
- De: Tony Wagner
- Narrado por: Paul Costanzo
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
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Education expert Tony Wagner situates our school problems in the context of the global knowledge economy and analyzes the skills necessary for our young people to succeed.
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made obsolete by 'MostLikelyToSucceed'-still great
- De MichaelS en 04-01-16
De: Tony Wagner
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Tim Gunn: The Natty Professor
- A Master Class on Mentoring, Motivating and Making It Work!
- De: Tim Gunn, Ada Calhoun
- Narrado por: Tim Gunn
- Duración: 5 h y 24 m
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Tim Gunn, America's favorite reality TV cohost, is known for his kind but firm approach in providing wisdom, guidance, and support to the scores of design hopefuls on Project Runway. Having begun his fashion career as a teacher at Parsons The New School for Design, Tim knows more than a thing or two about mentorship and how to convey invaluable pearls of wisdom in an approachable, accessible manner.
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Life lessons for All
- De Trendy en 03-11-16
De: Tim Gunn, y otros
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Limitless Mind
- Learn, Lead, and Live Without Barriers
- De: Jo Boaler
- Narrado por: Jo Boaler
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
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In this revolutionary book, a professor of education at Stanford University and acclaimed math educator who has spent decades studying the impact of beliefs and bias on education, reveals the six keys to unlocking learning potential, based on the latest scientific findings.
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Title does not reflect audience
- De Oliver Nielsen en 05-02-20
De: Jo Boaler
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The Bonjour Effect
- The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed
- De: Julie Barlow, Jean-Benoit Nadeau
- Narrado por: Teri Schnaubelt
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow spent a decade traveling back and forth to Paris as well as living there. Yet one important lesson never seemed to sink in: how to communicate comfortably with the French, even when you speak their language. In The Bonjour Effect, Jean-Benoît and Julie chronicle the lessons they learned after they returned to France to live, for a year, with their twin daughters. They offer up all the lessons they learned and explain the most important aspect of all: the French don't communicate, they converse.
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Terrible French pronunciation
- De CA en 01-24-19
De: Julie Barlow, y otros
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What Teachers Make
- In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World
- De: Taylor Mali
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 2 h y 29 m
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Former middle school teacher and teachers' advocate Taylor Mali struck a chord with his passionate response to a man at a dinner party who asked him what kind of salary teachers make - a poetic rant that has been seen and forwarded millions of times on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. Based on the poem that inspired a movement, What Teachers Make is Mali's sharp, funny, reflective, critical call to arms about the joys of teaching and why teachers are so vital to America today.
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Loved it!!
- De Anonymous User en 02-16-22
De: Taylor Mali
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Common Ground: Exclusive Edition
- De: Justin Trudeau
- Narrado por: Justin Trudeau, Colm Feore
- Duración: 8 h y 4 m
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Justin Trudeau has spent his life in the public eye. From the moment he was born, the first son of an iconic prime minister and his young wife, Canadians have witnessed the highs and the lows, sharing in his successes and mourning with him during tragic times. But few beyond Justin's closest circle have heard his side of his unique journey. Now, in Common Ground, Justin Trudeau reveals how the events of his life have influenced him and formed the ideals that drive him today.
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Mesmerizing
- De emilia en 05-04-18
De: Justin Trudeau
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Creative Schools
- The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education
- De: Lou Aronica, Ken Robinson
- Narrado por: Ken Robinson PhD
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
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Ken Robinson is one of the world's most influential voices in education, and his 2006 TED Talk on the subject is the most viewed in the organization's history. Now, the internationally recognized leader on creativity and human potential focuses on one of the most critical issues of our time: how to transform the nation's troubled educational system.
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The Answer to Why Students Stop Trying
- De Alison Sattler en 07-21-15
De: Lou Aronica, y otros
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How to Be Black
- De: Baratunde Thurston
- Narrado por: Baratunde Thurston
- Duración: 6 h y 27 m
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Beyond memoir, this guidebook offers practical advice on everything from "How to Be the Black Friend" to "How to Be the (Next) Black President" to "How to Celebrate Black History Month". This is a humorous, intelligent, and audacious guide that challenges and satirizes the so-called experts, purists, and racists who purport to speak for all Black people. With honest storytelling and biting wit, Baratunde plots a path not just to blackness, but one open to anyone interested in simply "how to be".
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Funny yet insightful!
- De Theodore en 02-15-12
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre America's Bilingual Century
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- 04-21-21
Bringing Bilingualism to Life
I have been considering how to bring bilingualism into my own life for decades. I have struggled with the stops and starts and all the concepts and approaches from Rosetta Stone, to immersion to sleep learning to teachers to you name it. The missing link that this book brings into crystal clear focus is simple-there is no one size fits all or fits most. Success is a long term plan using a style and approach tied to how you learn and your own personal lifestyle/habits etc. The book explores all the avenues and helps you understand just where your style, time and approach is likely to have the greatest chance for success-kind of like a laser guided missile for language learning. This is a very impressive and comprehensive work that should be part of every language and/or linguistics program at every university but also really works for anyone just interested in making bilingualism part of a lifelong learning plan.
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