Posts Tagged misconceptions
The Homeschooling Option: How to Decide When It’s Right for Your Family
In this accessible and honest look at homeschooling, Lisa Rivero explores the diverse faces of homeschooled students and the ways in which it can help children with special learning needs. She corrects misconceptions through profiles of diverse families and addresses the changing and complex needs of children today. This book addresses the major questions parents are bound to have as they consider this option: socialization, curriculum, special needs arrangements,… More >>
The Homeschooling Option: How to Decide When It’s Right for Your Family
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Bad Medicine: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Distance Healing to Vitamin O
“Christopher Wanjek uses a take-no-prisoners approach in debunking the outrageous nonsense being heaped on a gullible public in the name of science and medicine. Wanjek writes with clarity, humor, and humanity, and simultaneously informs and entertains.”
–Dr. Michael Shermer, Publisher, Skeptic magazine; monthly columnist,
Scientific American; author of Why People Believe Weird Things Prehistoric humans believed cedar ashes and incantations… More >>
Bad Medicine: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Distance Healing to Vitamin O
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Setting the Record Straight: Responses to Misconceptions About Public Education in the U.S.
Gerald Bracey knows there are three kinds of lies in education policy: lies, damned lies, and the statistics that reactionary reformers tout as evidence in favor of dismantling our public schools. In this second and substantially updated edition of the hard-hitting Setting the Record Straight, Bracey, whom Washington Post education reporter Jay Mathews called “one of this country’s most authoritative defenders of the work of public school teachers,” goes toe-to-toe … More >>
Setting the Record Straight: Responses to Misconceptions About Public Education in the U.S.
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Re-Reading Families: The Literate Lives of Urban Children, Four Years Later
Four years after publishing her provocative study, Reading Families: The Literate Lives of Urban Children, Compton-Lilly revisits the same group of urban students (then first graders, now fourth and fifth graders) and their families. Armed with rare longitudinal data from follow-up interviews and reading assessments, she once again upsets widespread misconceptions about reading and urban families. This eye-opening sequel uses case studies to explore important issues… More >>
Re-Reading Families: The Literate Lives of Urban Children, Four Years Later
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50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior
50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology uses popular myths as a vehicle for helping students and laypersons to distinguish science from pseudoscience. Uses common myths as a vehicle for exploring how to distinguish factual from fictional claims in popular psychology Explores topics that readers will relate to, but often misunderstand, such as “opposites attract,” “people use only 10% of their brains,” and handwriting reveals your personality … More >>
50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior
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