Quart provides a revelatory and provocative examination of the enormous pressures being brought to bear today on children designated as "gifted"--by both schools and parents--and how all of the special programs, classes, and competitions meant to ensure they will be highly successful can have serious "revenge effects" and troubling long-term consequences.
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Quart provides a revelatory and provocative examination of the enormous pressures being brought to bear today on children designated as "gifted"--by both schools and parents--and how all of the special programs, classes, and competitions meant to ensure they will be highly successful can have serious "revenge effects" and troubling long-term consequences.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 260 p. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2006043771 Type of material Book Personal name Quart, Alissa. Main title Hothouse kids: the dilemma of the gifted child / Alissa Quart. Published/Created New York: Penguin Press, 2006. Description 260 p.; 25 cm. ISBN 1594200955 9781594200953 LC classification HQ773.5. Q83 2006 Contents The Icarus effect--The baby genius edutainment complex: the new smart baby products--The educated infant: classes for an improved childhood--Child's play of child labor? Preprofessional kids--Gifted and left behind: enrichment in the public schools--Gurus of giftedness: intelligence testing and talent by other measures--Extreme parenting: mothers and fathers as the ultimate instructors--Youth competitors: youth contests for good and for ill--Children of God: the teen preaching tournaments--The prodigy hunters: math whiz kids become Wall Street recruits--Rethinking giftedness: against perfection. LC Subjects Gifted children--Social conditions. Gifted children--Psychology. Gifted children--Education. Children--Intelligence levels. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-248) and index. Dewey class no. 305.9/089 Other system no. (OCoLC)ocm65341252
