A School District That Considers the Recession as a God Send or An Example of Local Control Over Central Control?

Here is an example of a "Can do" attitude on an individual level when the norm is a "Can't do" attitude on a collective level which only results in whining and complaining about the lack of government funds.



I say no more. What say you?

MMMMM, Are We Born to be Certain Types of Persons?

We accept that some people are born with a talent for music or art or athletics. But what about mathematics? Do some of us just arrive in the world with better math skills than others?

It seems we do, at least according to the results of a study by a team of Johns Hopkins University psychologists. Led by Melissa Libertus, a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the study -- published online in a recent issue of Developmental Science -- indicates that math ability in preschool children is strongly linked to their inborn and primitive "number sense," called an "Approximate Number System" or ANS.

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Would it not follow from this that some of us are born to be more logical than others also? But, then again, what do psychologists really know as we pointed out here?

Psychology Doesn't Know as Much as It Thought It Did

Therapy sometimes did more harm than good and people were more resilient than expected, experts say.

Does make a person wonder just how many persons have been harmed by those so-called experts over the years that Psychologists thought they knew enough to apply their theories, doesn't it?

And what does this imply about the discipline of Sociology?

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