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Update: Children of the Code: CHANGING TRAJECTORIES – the Final Chapter

By on January 15, 2013 in Challenge of Change, Children of the Code, Healthy Learning

“CHANGING TRAJECTORIES” is the final chapter of Phase I of COTC and includes our suggestions and tips for improving the learning trajectories of struggling readers.

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Our government is what our population has learned it to be.

By on November 5, 2012 in Capital Value Case, Challenge of Change, Healthy Learning, Mission of Education

Our national political conversation is devoid of even mentioning the central issue that, within two decades, will most determine our nation’s fate: our most distinctive competency – our only long term competitive advantage – our collective intelligence.

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Is Wealth Inequality A Matter of Choice?

By on July 4, 2012 in Capital Value Case, Comments on other sites, I AM LEARNED, Self-Esteem

The attribution of choice lies at the heart of virtually all forms of social inequality and what might also be called “self-inequality”. How we hold ourselves responsible for our choices forms much of the basis for how proud or ashamed of ourselves we are. How we hold others responsible for their choices forms much of the basis of our judgements about them. After all, if we believe that ‘success’ is the product of individual choice then so to is ‘failure’.

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Higher Vocabulary ~ Higher Intelligence ~ Higher Income = Reading Matters

By on June 30, 2012 in Children of the Code, Comments on other sites, Learning

Higher Vocabulary ~ Higher Intelligence ~ Higher Income = Reading Matters
It must be added that the differences in vocabulary here are not differences learned in oral conversation. After grade 4 vocabulary growth is largely driven through literacy not speech.  Because most of the difference in adult vocabulary is a result of reading, using vocabulary as a proxy for intelligence is an indirect way of pointing to the role of reading in intelligence.

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IQ Learning

By on June 28, 2012 in Artificial Learning, Brain Science, Children of the Code, I AM LEARNED, Learning

Working Memory: IQ is not fixed. For better and worse, learning changes IQ. Because intelligence both shapes and is shaped by learning our conversation about the plasticity of IQ is another case in point for: “I” become the “me” I learn to be.

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