Childhood Leta Stetter Hollingworth was a psychologist who was born on 25th May 1886 in Chadron Nebraska in the USA. Leta Hollingworth’s mother Margaret Elinor Danley died when she was giving birth to her little sister while Hollingworth was three years old. Her father John G. Stetter then abandoned Hollingworth and her two little sisters. She and her sisters therefore raised by their grandparents. Hollingworth’s father returned when she was 12 years old. She and her sisters then forced to move to live with her father with his new wife in Valentine Nebraska. Hollingworth’s step-mother was abusive and authoritarian towards Hollingworth and her sisters. Therefore, studying is a shelter for Hollingworth. Which then allow Hollingworth to develop …show more content…
Therefore, their life in New York became poverty-stricken. Moreover, she was refused by Columbia while she wanted to get a job like her husband due to her gender. She was unable to get fellowship or scholarship. Luckily, in 1911, Harry was hired by the Coca-Cola Company to do research, Leta Was then hired by Harry as a research assistant. Finally, she was capable to take a graduate course at Columbia. She graduated with her Master's Degree in 1913. And that was the start of her Concern in Psychology of Women. She published “The Frequency of Amentia as Related to Sex” in 1913 as her Master Thesis. Then published “Functional Periodicity: An Experimental Study of the Mental and Motor Abilities of Women During Menstruation” in 1914. In 1916, while Hollingworth studying a Ph.D. under Thorndike in Columbia, she and Robert Lowie’s article “Science and Feminism” published, it was against the Variability Hypothesis which supported by Darwin and Thorndike. The thought of Hollingworth was the potential of women could be known only after they were able to choose their own career and maternity. At that year, Hollingworth gained her Ph. D. under …show more content…
She was almost the first to use The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale which published in 1916. Hollingworth aimed to manifest the test to test a “bright” children by using a retarded child as contrast. But that child scored 187 IQ and hence Hollingworth started to shift her focus from Psychology of Women to Gifted children. In 1920, Hollingworth published “The Psychology of Subnormal Children” which became an influential book in the field. She also published “Special Talents and Defects” in 1923 which emphasized special talents. In 1922, Hollingworth started an experiment with 50 gifted children whose age from 7-9 years old with IQs over 155. Hollingworth was the first to discover the coexist of giftedness and learning disabilities as she published “Gifted Children: Their Nature and Nurture” in 1926. Moreover, Hollingworth also published “The Psychology of Adolescent” which was important to the field in 1928. In 1929, Hollingworth became a full professor and a member of National Education Association (NEA) and the American Psychological Association (APA). Furthermore, she was also an editor of The Journal of Genetic Psychology. In 1936, the establishment of Speyer School gave a chance to Hollingworth to start her another experiment about gifted children. The school served as a laboratory like and allow
Holling is the only student in his class who is presbyterian. Throughout the novel The Wednesday Wars, Holling Hoodhood is influenced by his teacher Mrs. Baker, his friend Danny, and his sister Heather. One influence in Holling’s life is Mrs. Baker. Mrs. Baker helped Holling for his Cross Country meet.
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For example, when his father failed to keep his promise of taking Holling to a baseball game, Mrs. Baker is the one who drives Holling to the play. At the end of the book, Holling and Mrs. Baker grew into real friends rather than a teacher-student
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As the plot progresses, Sethe is confronted with elements of her haunting past: traumatic experiences from her life as a slave, her daunting escape, and the measures she took to keep her family safe from her hellish owner plague Sethe into the present and force her to come to terms with the past. A definitive theme observed in the novel is slavery’s dehumanization of both master and servant. Slave owners beat their slaves regularly to subjugate them and instill the idea that they were only livestock. After losing most of the Sweet Home men, the Schoolteacher sets his sights on Sethe and her children in order to make Sweet Home “worth the trouble it was causing him” (Morrison 227).
Some people work hard their whole life to achieve success and others just seem to be born talented in a certain field that they prevail in. One of the ways an individual can attempt to become successful is by working diligently in school to obtain a proper education. Access to advanced education is key if you would want to become very intelligent and furthermore the so called “gifted programs” in these advanced education systems are supposed to make you even smarter.People have wondered if going through gifted programs would make you more successful in your adult life.There was a man named Richard Terman, who wanted to take a group of kids in these gifted programs, his “Termites”, and track how successful they were later in life. He was hoping to find that the kids that were in advanced classes would in fact become very successful adults and he was right. When his Termites were adults many of them became experts in different fields. Terman measured the success of the chosen people by looking at awards they have achieved and all of the writings that they have published and the amount of these achievements was fairly
Hoskins runs a successful saloon, so there is always plenty of food to eat, a condition that Richard greatly appreciates but to which he cannot accustom himself. Soon, however, white jealousy of Hoskins's business success reaches a peak, as local white men kill Hoskins and threaten the rest of his family. Ella and Maggie flee with the two boys to West Helena, Arkansas. There, the two sisters' combined wages make life easier than it had been in Memphis. After only a short time, however, Maggie flees to Detroit with her lover, Professor Matthews, leaving Ella the sole support of the family.
The Coleman family, like majority African Americans who resided in the Deep South among the early 20th century, encounter a lot of troubles and hardships. Bessie's family dealt with segregation, and racial animosity. Because of such difficulties, Bessie's father made a decision to move their family to the Indian Territory in Oklahoma. He conceived they could make a more desirable living for them there. Bessie's mother, didn't want to live in the Indian reservation and choose to stay in Waxahachie. Bessie, and a few of her sisters, also decided to stay in Texas. Bessie was a very determined person. In spite of working long hours, she still manged to find time to educate herself by getting books. Even though she couldn't attend school all the time, Bessie learned a good amount on her own enough to graduate high school. She then began on to study at a Colored Agricultural and Normal University in Langston, Oklahoma. However, because of her constrained budget, she only went for one semester of college.
Early childhood education, although constantly evolving, was actually established and practiced as early on as the times of Ancient Greece and Rome. The foundation that early childhood education is based upon is to instill in children the skills needed to succeed later on in life, while making sure young children enjoy their time in schooling. Throughout chapter 3 in the textbook Who Am I in the Lives of Children, the reader is capable of evaluating just how greatly the methods for teaching today’s youth have evolved and changed for the better.
Planned Parenthood Southeast (PPSE) is a member affiliate of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the oldest and largest voluntary family planning organization in the country. On April 1, 2010, Planned Parenthood of Georgia merged with Planned Parenthood Alabama to become Planned Parenthood Southeast serving Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. PPSE has extensive experience providing women’s health care, community health education, and public policy advocacy in the Southeast region for over 80 years. We work with national, state and local providers and community agencies to provide high quality health care to over 20,000 clients, and community education programs to over 8,000 participants annually. By combining the Georgia affiliate with the Alabama-Mississippi affiliate, we have created an organization that represents the interests and needs of the region while providing the core mission services in the local communities we serve. This is a trend across the country to strengthen Planned Parenthood organizations and allow us to continue to meet the mission, especially where the need is greatest in areas like the South.
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I gave birth to a healthy, beautiful baby girl named Luna. Jeffrey has taken quite a liking to being a big brother. He likes to hold and rocker her and helps with feeding her. Jeffrey is still a slow-to warm child. He can communicate fairly well and is now using mostly complete sentences and seems to understand most of what I say. He occasionally makes errors of overregularization. He has taken an interest in music and singsongs even though he usually repeats a certain part a lot. I encourage this by taking him to local performances of children’s musicals. Jeffrey has learned the routines pretty well and is reasonably cooperative for his age. He is rarely aggressive to adults or other children. Jeffrey’s fantasy play has become more elaborate and sometimes includes superheroes or cartoon
The identification and definition of giftedness have been controversial for many, many decades. Originally, IQ test scores were the only way of determining giftedness. An IQ test would be given and some number score, such as 12-, would be the point of cut-off (Cook, Elliott, Kratochwill, & Travers, 2000). More recently, intellectual giftedness is usually identified and defined by the specific school systems’ ideas and perspectives. There is no generally accepted definition of giftedness, but the Javits Gifted and Talented Education Act defines it as: