Pedro R. Portes Boeken

Focusing on child development, this book introduces the MAKING KIDS SMARTER (MKS) theory, which emphasizes fostering creativity and self-esteem as foundations for exceptional intelligence. It guides parents in enhancing their child's problem-solving skills and mental strategies while recognizing different developmental stages. The text also explores why firstborns and singletons often excel and how their home environments contribute to their advanced emotional health. By understanding these concepts, parents can effectively support their child's growth for a lifetime.

This long-awaited, solution-oriented book helps readers understand how inequality is organized in our public educational system. A four-component developmental model provides a policy-oriented framework that takes into account how children are socialized in and out of schools. Given an educational system that produces unequal opportunities for student learning, closing the gap requires thinking out of a box and the current conglomeration of social and economic policies. A multi-level strategy that aims for all to be educated at grade-level through a coordinated national strategy is presented to eliminate educational inequality. This is a «must read», controversial book that offers educators and policy-makers a fundamental understanding of how the achievement gap can be eliminated at the population level.