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Program 09-06-07-B |
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Ben Franklin, Henry Ford, Abigail Adams, Elvis Presley. Know what they have in common? They're all on Daniel Wolff's list of great Americans. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, Wolff explains the unique ways those people learned what they had to know. We'll also take a hard look at IQ and its relationship to race and class, and consider why dyslexia can be a gift.
SEGMENT 1:
Daniel Wolff is the author of "How Lincoln Learned to Read: 12 Great Americans and the Education That Made Them." He tells Anne Strainchamps that most Americans learn what they really need to know outside of school and that as a society, we believe contradictory things about the value of public education. Also, Richard Nisbett is an IQ expert. His latest book is "Intelligence and How to Get It." He tells Steve Paulson that parenting styles have an enormous impact on the IQ of children and so does simply telling middle-school children that influencing their IQ is within their control.
SEGMENT 2:
Maryanne Wolf runs the Center for Reading and Language Research at Tufts University, and is the author of "Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain." Wolf tells Anne Strainchamps that she thinks the dyslexia brain ought to be considered a gift that characterized some of history's leading figures. Also, Rick Riordan is the author of the wildly popular series of children's books featuring Percy Jackson - the dyslexic son of the god Poseidon. We hear clips from two of Percy's adventures, and Rick Riordan tells Anne Strainchamps that he created the character to help his own dyslexic son learn to love stories and reading.
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Lewis Buzbee has spent his life besotted with books. He's sold them, and now he writes them. His memoir is "The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A memoir, A history" and he's also the author of a novel called "Steinbeck's Ghost" for younger readers. Buzbee talks with Jim Fleming about the tactile pleasures of book shopping and why people still love going to the bookshop, despite the convenience of on-line shopping.
CD copies are available at 1-800-747-7444. Ask for program number 09-06-07-B.
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| Daniel Wolff, How Lincoln Learned to Read: Twelve Great Americans and the Education that Made Them (Bloomsbury) | |
| Richard E. Nisbet, Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count (Norton) | |
| Maryanne Wolf, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain. (Harper) |  |
| Lewis Buzbee, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A memoir, A history (Greywolf Press) |  |
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Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and The Olympians #1 The Lightning Thief (Miramax) |
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- after Wolff: Prelude from English Suite by John Duarte, performed by Robert Bluestone Convergence is CD title; Linares 1897
- after Nisbett: Round Dance from English Suite (as above)
- after Wolf: Nils Revkes Halling from Norwegian Wedding Danes by Edvard Grieg Stefan Jeschko, piano; Pilz CD 19
- after Riordan Rigandon from Holberg Suite by Edvard Grieg; Philharmonia Slavonica/L. Pesek Pilz CD 19
- after Buzbee Gavotte from Holberg Suite by Edvard Grieg; Philharmonia Slavonica/L. Pesek Pilz CD 19
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