Books Worth Reading: Endangered Minds

I highly recommend this book for anyone who works with, lives with, or is involved with children in any way. This work provides an understanding and substantiation of a problem plaguing our children and provides solutions to deal with it. Author Jane Healy has systematically analyzed what she considers to be the roots of the educational crisis, here in America, and also progressively in European countries. She builds strong case for the fact that our children’s brains are different physically from those of children 50 years ago. This physical difference manifests itself in distinct strengths and weaknesses unlike those of previous generations of children. She examines the relationship between the brain and language learning, attention, and passivity. Her work is backed with hard research. If there was ever a solid argument that the media is impacting our children and how they think, this is it!