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Examines the effects of long-term poverty on the brains of poor children and identifies several positive factors and strategies which can improve their academic success.
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Having taught at all levels from elementary school through university, Jensen specializes in neuroscience and is part of the brain-based movement. Focusing here on the relationship between academic achievement and low socio-economic status, he argues that chronic exposure to poverty causes the brain to change physically in a detrimental manner, that the brain is designed to adapt from experience and can change for the better, and that there are certain key factors that are especially effective in increasing academic success among students raised in poverty. He identifies success factors at the school and classroom level, and discusses instructional light and magic. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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