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The essential guide for teaching beyond the test! Students with strong higher-order thinking skills are more likely to become successful, lifelong learners. Based on extensive, collaborative research by leading authorities in the field, this book shows how to implement teaching and learning strategies that nurture intelligence, creativity, and...
The essential guide for teaching beyond the test! Students with strong higher-order thinking skills...
Students with Both Gifts and Learning Disabilities
Identification, Assessment, and Outcomes
We were motivated to edit this book when we began to hear stories of exceptional students who were struggling with reading, writing, or math, but who could solve seemingly any problem with computers, or build the most intricate structures with Legos, or could draw beautiful pictures, or could tell the most creative stories but ended up in tears...
We were motivated to edit this book when we began to hear stories of exceptional students who were...
What Universities Can Be
A New Model for Preparing Students for Active Concerned Citizenship and Ethical Leadership
In What Universities Can Be , the high-profile educator Robert J. Sternberg writes thoughtfully about the direction of higher education in this country and its potential to achieve future excellence.
In What Universities Can Be , the high-profile educator Robert J. Sternberg writes thoughtfully...
Giftedness and Talent in the 21st Century
Adapting to the Turbulence of Globalization
When today’s gifted and talented young people emerge into adulthood will they be able to overcome some enormous 21st-century problems that are pushing us toward large-scale socioeconomic devastation? Will they be able to capitalize on unprecedented opportunities that can lead to widespread prosperity and fulfillment? This book explores...
When today’s gifted and talented young people emerge into adulthood will they be able to...
Creative Intelligence in the 21st Century
Grappling with Enormous Problems and Huge Opportunities
How can creative individuals and societies adapt to complex 21st-century conditions? Will civilizations thrive or collapse in the decades to come if they are not creative enough, or if they are too creative? Interest in these questions is growing; however, until now there has been inadequate understanding of the socioeconomic and cultural...
How can creative individuals and societies adapt to complex 21st-century conditions? Will...
“A serious attempt to understand a common phenomenon” from the author of The Nature of Human Intelligence ( Psychology Today ). One need not look far to find breathtaking acts of stupidity committed by people who are smart, or even brilliant. The behavior of clever individuals—from presidents to prosecutors to professors—is at times so...
“A serious attempt to understand a common phenomenon” from the author of The Nature of Human...
In an increasingly competitive higher education environment, Americas public universities are seeking ways to differentiate themselves. This book suggests that a hopeful vision of what a university should be lies in a reexamination of the land-grant mission, the common system of values originally set forth in the Morrill Land Grant Acts of 1862 and...
In an increasingly competitive higher education environment, Americas public universities are...