For years many parents and teachers have known that there was something wrong in the schools but often couldn't put a finger on it. Starting with receiving an invasive questionnaire brought home by her young son, Charlotte started a search which has culminated in one of the most amazing books. The book is attractively laid out and invites readers to discover what has been happening to American education for the past 100 years -- all with quotes from those "change agents" who deliberately set out to have schools changed from individual excellence in becoming educated to groups being trained to think alike.
The Ultimate IQ Test Book is the biggest book of IQ practice tests
available. Written and compiled by IQ-test experts, it contains 1000
practice questions organized into 25 tests, with a simple guide to
assessing individual performance.
A Theory of Individual Behavior
The aim of this book is to present a new theory of individual behavior,with emphasis on testable implications. Discussed first is individual economic behavior--roughly, the subject matter of utility theory and the theory of the firm. The book then widens its scope to formulate a theory of individual behavior in general.
The Pursuit of Excellence Through Education by Michel Ferrari
Although the pursuit of excellence is as old as academics itself, the increasing diversity of the student population and limited resources are obliging educators and policymakers to return to the fundamental questions about the nature of excellence at the heart of the educational process. Specific definitions of excellence may change over time; however, few things are considered more important to education than the pursuit of academic excellence. It is almost impossible to imagine an effective educator who does not aim to promote excellent performances in his or her charges.
This volume allows those who emphasize transforming institutions and those who emphasize transforming individual activity to jointly consider how best to promote excellence through education. The point is not to favor either institutional or individual pursuit of excellence; rather, it is to raise the question of the relative responsibilities of each of these two poles to the human dialectic. Stated another way, the point is to consider how these two divergent viewpoints can be reconciled, or simply coordinated, in an effort to benefit both students and society at large.
