All Work and No Play...: How Educational Reforms Are Harming Our Preschoolers - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Sharna OlfmanSeries:Childhood in AmericaPublish date:2003-10-30Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:PraegerISBN-13:9780275977689ISBN-10:275977684UPC:9780275977689Book Category:EducationBook Subcategory:Schools, Educational Policy & Reform, Educational PsychologyBook Topic:LevelsSize:9.76 x 6.36 x 0.86 inchesWeight:1.0803Product ID:SCXXQ9KXHX
All Work and No Play...: How Educational Reforms Are Harming Our Preschoolers
Educators, neurologists, and psychologists explain how the high-stakes testing movement, and the race to wire classrooms, is actually stunting our children's intellects, blocking brain development and sometimes fueling mental illness. These experts, including a Pulitzer-Prize nominee, explain why play is not a luxury, but rather a necessity of learning.
Testing and technology has become a mantra...Language:EnglishPublisher:PraegerISBN-13:9780275977689ISBN-10:275977684UPC:9780275977689Book Category:EducationBook Subcategory:Schools, Educational Policy & Reform, Educational PsychologyBook Topic:LevelsSize:9.76 x 6.36 x 0.86 inchesWeight:1.0803Product ID:SCXXQ9KXHX
SHARNA OLFMAN is Clinical Psychologist and Associate Professor of Developmental Psychology at Park Point University, where she is also the founding director of the annual Childhood and Society Symposium. Olfman is the editor of the Childhood in America book series for Praeger Publishers. She is a partner in the national Alliance for Childhood, a group of academics, professionals, teachers, and...
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