“Children develop only as the environment demands development.” This is a quote found in David Shenk’s work, The Genius In All of Us, from a 1932 study by Sherman and Key of children growing up in various parts of Appalachia. The more remote the child’s family lived in the mountains of Appalachia, the less...
Read more →I was sitting and waiting to be called for a jury panel as I read the December issue of the APA Monitor. “The Real Secrets to a Longer Life” is an interview with Dr. Howard Friedman. Dr. Friedman has spent his career as a psychologist working with the longitudinal data first initiated by Lewis...
Read more →Many of the young adults I work with want to believe that IQ is what will determine their success later in life. Those of us who have been working for years with high-risk students know that IQ is only a very small part of the equation. Other factors loom much larger and fortunately those...
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