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...ABCs and 1-2-3s. "My child is bright. My child will excel in school. My child will make me proud." Industries are built on such aspirations. There are black-and-white mobiles to stimulate the senses and tapes of Mozart for Your Mind. Later come investments in Reader Rabbit software, encyclopedias and lessons to train every facet of body, brain and soul. But a child's success cannot be purchased, nor, to the frustration of parents everywhere, can it be wished into being...
...read to your children in bed when they're little. Eventually, if that's a wonderful experience for them, they'll start to read for themselves." Parker says he has never met a kid with high scores on the verbal section of the sat who wasn't a passionate reader. "At the breakfast table, these kids read the cereal boxes. That's what readers...
...point is only that, however, and Gardner proceeds to pose the "crucial educational question": Can we use knowledge about individual strengths to convey the "core notions" of a subject? One expects Gardner to answer this question, using illustrations from his two topics. Instead, he goes off into generalities. The reader is left with no idea of how Gardner would, say, use students' interpersonal gifts to teach them the core mathematical principles of genetics...
...about educational software? So far, there's little hard evidence to prove it really works, even though Cook insists that the Reader Rabbit series helped his eldest son learn to read. But software doesn't have to be educational to be a good buy. Just Grandma and Me became a best seller among preschoolers even though it was little more than an interactive picture book. And parents who found Arthur's Teacher Trouble such a charming diversion from the tube will also like Arthur's Computer Adventure, which has reading and math games...
Although Calvino's book is influenced by the neo-realist movement which dominated Italian post-war culture, the novel nonetheless has an air of surreality. It often seems like a fable because so much is presented to the reader through the eyes of an eight year old, precocious in some ways and naive in most, as all eight year olds...