Hothouse Kids: How the Pressure to Succeed Threatens Childhood [Kindle Edition] 9781101201602

Alissa Quart's deeply disturbing account looks at the intensely competitive and frenzied lives of America's ch

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English Pages 272 Year 2006

Hothouse Kids: How the Pressure to Succeed Threatens Childhood [Kindle Edition]
9781101201602

Author / Uploaded
Alissa Quart

Categories
Education
Elementary

Table of contents :
ONE The Icarus Effect
TWO The Baby Genius Edutainment Complex: The New Smart Baby Products
THREE The Educated Infant: Classes for an Improved Childhood
FOUR Child’s Play or Child Labor? Preprofessional Kids
FIVE Gifted and Left Behind: Enrichment in the Public Schools
SIX Gurus of Giftedness: Intelligence Testing and Talent by Other Measures
SEVEN Extreme Parenting: Mothers and Fathers as the Ultimate Instructors
EIGHT Young Competitors: Youth Contests for Good and for Ill
NINE Children of God: The Teen Preaching Tournaments
TEN The Prodigy Hunters: Math Whiz Kids Become Wall Street Recruits
CONCLUSION Rethinking Giftedness: Against Perfection

Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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