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Aptitude Myth: How an Ancient Belief Came to Undermine Children's Learning Today

Aptitude Myth: How an Ancient Belief Came to Undermine Children's Learning Today

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General EducationTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 1475804369
ISBN13: 9781475804362
Publisher: R & L Education
Published: Jun 19 2013
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.90
Language: English

The Aptitude Myth addresses the decline in American children's mastery of critical school subjects. It contends that a contributing cause for this decline derives from many Americans' ways of thinking about children's learning: They believe that school performance is determined very largely by innate aptitude. The Aptitude Myth traces the deep historical origins, the spread and elaboration, and the eventual triumph of the belief in the determining power of mental abilities given at birth and therefore fixed. Covered is 600 B.C.E. until 1926 (when the S.A.T. was first administered).

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