[PDF] A Nation Deceived eBook

Author : Susan G. Assouline
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 31,10 MB
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 0996160337

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This new report, A Nation Empowered: Evidence Trumps the Excuses Holding Back America's Brightest Students builds on the momentum of the 2004 report, A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America's Brightest Students. A Nation Deceived initiated a critical dialogue about academic acceleration, an under-used intervention. A Nation Deceived exposed to the nation the inconsistencies between research and practice and brought acceleration to prominence in the field. Volume 1 and 2 of A Nation Empowered: Evidence Trumps the Excuses Holding Back America's Brightest Students equips students, families, and educators with facts to refute biased excuses. A Nation Empowered shifts the impetus from conversation to action. Empowerement galvanizes determination with evidence. Volume 1 portrays the determination of students, educators, and parents to strive for excellence. Volume 2 reveals the evidence that trumps the excuses that hold bright students back.

Author : James R. Delisle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 46,6 MB
Release : 2021-09-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 1000492273

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At a time when the U.S. education system consistently lags behind its international peers, Dumbing Down America shows exactly why America can't keep up by providing a critical look at the nation's schools through the eyes of the children whose minds are languishing in countless classrooms. Filled with specific examples of how gifted children are being shortchanged by a nation that believes smart kids will succeed on their own, Dumbing Down America packs a powerful message: If we want our nation to prosper, we must pay attention to its most intelligent youth. With more than 35 years of experience working with and for gifted children, author James R. Delisle provides a template of what can and must happen in America's schools if they are to fulfill their mission of educating every child to the fullest potential. Dumbing Down America is a must-read for any individual who believes that the unfulfilled promises to gifted children must begin to be met in America's schools today, not someday.

Author : Bill Gertz
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 30,87 MB
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1641771674

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The United States' approach to China since the Communist regime in Beijing began the period of reform and opening in the 1980s was based on a promise that trade and engagement with China would result in a peaceful, democratic state. Forty years later the hope of producing a benign People's Republic of China utterly failed. The Communist Party of China deceived the West into believing that the its system and the Party-ruled People's Liberation Army were peaceful and posed no threat. In fact, these misguided policies produced the emergence of a 21st Century Evil Empire even more dangerous than a Cold War version in the Soviet Union. Successive American presidential administrations were fooled by ill-advised pro-China policymakers, intelligence analysts and business leaders who facilitated the rise not of a peaceful China but a threatening and expansionist nuclear-armed communist dictatorship not focused on a single overriding strategic objective: Weakening and destroying the United States of America. Defeating the United States is the first step for China's current rulers in achieving global supremacy under a new world order based an ideology of Communism with Chinese characteristics. The process included technology theft of American companies that took place on a massive scale through cyber theft and unfair trade practices. The losses directly supported in the largest and most significant buildup of the Chinese military that now directly threatens American and allied interests around the world. The military threat is only half the danger as China aggressively pursues regional and international control using a variety of non-military forces, including economic, cyber and space warfare and large-scale influence operations. Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China's Drive for Global Supremacy details the failure to understand the nature and activities of the dangers posed by China and what the United States can do in taking needed steps to counter the threats.

Author : Frank Kofsky
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 35,57 MB
Release : 1995-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780312123291

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Kofsky reveals how Truman and the two most important members of his cabinet, Marshall and Forrestall, systematically deceived Congress and the public into thinking that the USSR was about to start World War III.

Author : Nicholas Colangelo
Publisher :
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 14,91 MB
Release : 2004
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With support from the John Templeton Foundation, the authors held a Summit on Acceleration at The University of Iowa in May 2003. They invited distinguished scholars and educators from around the country to help them formulate a national report on acceleration. This first volume of the Templeton Report on acceleration trumpets an alarm to the nation's schools on the need for providing accelerative experiences for its brightest students. Founded on a solid research base established over the last 50 years, acceleration clearly deserves greater use in practice than has been the case. The report describes several types of acceleration and corresponding social concerns. It also attests to the cost effectiveness of acceleration for colleges, schools, and parents. Specific ideas are cited for what teachers and the general reader can do to help promote these accelerative practices. Appended are: (1) Executive Summary: "A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America's Brightest Students"; (2) About the Authors of "A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America's Brightest Students"; (3) The Connie Belin & Jacqueline N. Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development; (4) The Gifted Education Research, Resource and Information Centre; (5) The John Templeton Foundation; (6) Resources for Educators and Parents; and (7) What You Can Do Right Now. [For Volume 2, "A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America's Brightest Students. The Templeton National Report on Acceleration. Volume 2," see ED535138.].