Endangered Minds: Why Children Don't Think And What We Can Do About It
Jane M. Healy





Format: Paperback, 392pp.
ISBN: 9780684856209
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date: September 1999

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Is today's fast-paced media culture creating a toxic environment for our children's brains?

In this landmark, bestselling assessment tracing the roots of America's escalating crisis in education, Jane M. Healy, Ph.D., examines how television, video games, and other components of popular culture compromise our children's ability to concentrate and to absorb and analyze information. Drawing on neuropsychological research and an analysis of current educational practices, Healy presents in clear, understandable language:

• How growing brains are physically shaped by experience
• Why television programs -- even supposedly educational shows like Sesame Street -- develop "habits of mind" that place children at a disadvantage in school
• Why increasing numbers of children are diagnosed with attention deficit disorder
• How parents and teachers can make a critical difference by making children good learners from the day they are born

About the Author

Jane M. Healy, Ph.D., has been an educational psychologist and professional educator for more than thirty-five years, with experience as a classroom teacher, university professor, reading and learning specialist, and elementary school administrator. She won the Delta Kappa Gamma Society International Educator's Award for Endangered Minds. She is a parent and grandparent, and lives with her husband in Vail, Colorado.


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