Blind Spots

Why Students Fail and the Science That Can Save Them

De: Kimberly Berens

Narrado por: Christina Regnault

In the United States, a majority of students graduate below proficiency in all academic subjects. Parents of struggling students feel overwhelmed and confused about how to help their children simply survive school, let alone succeed. Various school reform efforts have been tried and all have failed. But all hope is not lost. A science exists that allows children to learn as individuals even though at school they are educated in groups. One that avoids senseless labels that sentence children to lifetimes of failure and mediocrity.

Dr. Kimberly Berens and a team of scientists have spent the last 20 years perfecting a powerful system of instruction based on the learning, behavioral, and cognitive sciences that they call Fit Learning. This method of teaching has been proven to markedly improve how students understand and achieve, even for children who have been told they have learning disabilities or other disorders that interfere with their ability to learn.

Blind Spots reveals the history of our broken education system and shows that by using this teaching system in the classroom, we can unlock the vast potential hidden within every child.

©2020 Kimberly Berens (P)2022 The Collective Book Studio

Empowering and eye opening

Anyone who teaches (own kids, students) needs these empowering truths — the author shares the scientific facts of how human learning happens. Fascinating behaviour science processes explained in easy to understand terms.

Mostly smug with a few interesting ideas

I thought the author brought up some thought-provoking points but it was so laden with self-promotion and smug condemnation of “the establishment” it was hard continue. The problems the author highlighted seemed to be the primary focus, rather than the solutions.