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Today’s guest on The Learning Curve is Jonathan Lewis, Editor-in-Chief of Home School Enrichment Magazine. Home School Enrichment Magazine is a bi-monthly print magazine, but also on-line at: http://homeschoolenrichment.com/

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This is a must hear show for parents who want good grades for their kids.

There are now more than two-million children being home-schooled in the US, with numbers fast increasing each year. Jonathan reveals that home-schooled kids on average score 35% higher than the national average on standardized achievement tests! He also reveals that the US is spending $10,500 a year for each enrolled student in regular schools, but the average cost of home-school education is $500 per child . . . and what a difference in result!

Learn the reasons why parents opt for home schooling. Learn how easy it is, how to go about setting up your home school endeavor; what resources, help, free advice and services are available for potential home-schoolers.

Hear how parental involvement, even for non-home-schooled kids, is an important key to good grades.

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Roger & Virginia interview Mira and Mark Halpert of www.3DLearner.com. Mira is a practicing school teacher who has been featured on CBS showing her revolutionary answers to the “learning disabilities” experienced by those labeled as being “dyslexic.” What people see as a disability Mira sees as a learning difference, and she proves it with her success handling students as revealed by the CBS program. See www.3dlearner.com/parents

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What we reveal in this show are the extraordinary abilities and true potential these children (and adults) have along with how to best harness and take advantage of what conventional wisdom mislabels as “disability.” We also discuss how these children excel in later life and in business when they are away from the stifling structure of the conventional school system.

These folks (children and adults) are holographic in their thought processes, and learning style, which mode of action actually gives them huge advantages in real life. Listeners will be able to benefit not only from getting a correct understanding of these phenomena, but learn how a correct address to them both in the learning process and in life can yield superior results.

Listeners will learn the symptoms by which they can correctly recognize this phenomenon in their children (or themselves). This is part two of our show with Mira and Mark Halpert of www.3DLearner.com.

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Roger & Virginia interview Mira and Mark Halpert of www.3DLearner.com. Mira is a practicing school teacher who has been featured on CBS showing her revolutionary answers to the “learning disabilities” experienced by those labeled as being “dyslexic.” What we reveal in this show are the extraordinary abilities and true potential these children (and adults) have along with how to best harness and take advantage of what conventional wisdom sees as a “disability.” Mark and Mira reveal a statistic of thirty-three percent of students are being labeled as “disabled” for having what they refer to as being “right brain learners.” In actuality, these folks are holographic in their thought processes, and learning style, which mode of action actually gives them huge advantages in real life. Listeners will be able to benefit from hearing how a correct understanding of these phenomena along with a correct address to them both in the learning process and in life can yield superior results. This is part one of a two part show with Mira and Mark Halpert of www.3DLearner.com.

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Dr. Gordon is an educator who has done it all. Here is Dr. Gordon at his outspoken best, blowing the whistle on the fallacies inherent in the current system of “teacher evaluation” and on the system that gives us the current scenario of school administration. Dr. Gordon is the author of the no-holds-barred book: The Emperor has No Clothes: The Crisis in American Inner City Schools. (Available through Amazon.Com). Dr. Gordon holds a Ph.D. in Educational Administration, and has consulted for many school districts in Mass., NJ, and NY; and has been principal evaluator of millions of dollars of New York City Public School programs. He was a professor at City Univ. of NYC and Clark University in Mass. Most important, he has had some 40 years in public education, most of which was in inner city schools, including E. Orange (NJ), Dallas (Tx) and Shreveport (La). Additionally, he was an assistant principal in an inner city school for 2 years(Orange, NJ). Thus, he knows of what he speaks based on first-hand experience.

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Listen to Jenna describe how she helps adult students overcome their past study failure and win at learning. Jenna is the Adult Basic Education Center Coordinator for Literacy Partners, Inc., a non-profit organization that provides free literacy classes for New Yorkers. Here she oversees more than a hundred current students and forty volunteer tutors who teach the classes, serving adults with grades 1-5 reading and math skills. Jenna has vast experience dealing with students tackling grades 1-5. Before coming to Literacy Partners, she was the Adult Education Coordinator for Foundation Communities where she wrote and delivered adult English Second Language and Financial Literacy programs for the English and Spanish speaking residents. Prior to that Jenna taught children and young adults both in school and in free after-school programs in South Texas.

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Roger and Virginia interview Dr. Robyn Odegaard PhD., on issues concerning the keys to great teamwork and harmonious relationships in families, sports teams and the corporate workplace. “Doc Robyn” reveals the Nine Secrets to Great Teamwork. Doc Robyn is President of Champion Performance Development (www.ChampPerformance.com), Founder of the Stop the Drama! Campaign (http://on.fb.me/hYwJ4e) and author of the soon to be available book Stop the Drama! The Ultimate Guide to Female Teams. Her doctoral degree is in psychology of organizations with a concentration in sport and performance. Following a successful career of applying her principles in corporate America, she has taken her leadership, teamwork, communication and conflict handling strategies and created a framework for young women, coaches and parents that enable them to put an end to misalignment and disharmony in relationships that too often afflict their endeavors. Doc Robyn is a frequent speaker and coach to Athletic Trainers, Networking Groups, countless college student bodies; and even the NCAA Women Coaches Academy. This is a must hear interview for parents who see a need for improved relationships and the setting and achieving of higher standards of performance with their student children. This is Part 2 of the two part interview with Dr. Robyn Odegaard PhD. Here you’ll learn the secrets that earned Doc Robyn accolades such as these from her clients: “Doc Robyn made a big impact on our team! I don’t know where we’d be without her.” And, “Doc Robyn helped our team become whole again. I am eternally grateful for what she did.”

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Roger and Virginia interview Dr. Robyn Odegaard PhD., on issues concerning the drama of upset relationships and disharmony in families, sports teams and the corporate workplace. “Doc Robyn” reveals the 7 No-Fail Secrets to Stop the Drama. Doc Robyn is President of Champion Performance Development (www.ChampPerformance.com), Founder of the Stop the Drama! Campaign (http://on.fb.me/hYwJ4e) and author of the soon to be available book Stop the Drama! The Ultimate Guide to Female Teams. Her doctoral degree is in psychology of organizations with a concentration in sport and performance. Following a successful career of applying her principles in corporate America, she has taken her leadership, teamwork, communication and conflict handling strategies and created a framework for young women, coaches and parents that enable them to put an end to the drama of relationship disharmony that too often afflict their endeavors. Doc Robyn is a frequent speaker and coach to Athletic Trainers, Networking Groups, countless college student bodies; and even the NCAA Women Coaches Academy. This is a must hear interview for parents who see a need for improved relationships with their student children. It will also help them help their children to better grades. This is Part 1 of a two part interview with Dr. Robyn Odegaard PhD. Here you’ll learn the secrets that earned Doc Robyn accolades such as these from her clients: “Doc Robyn made a big impact on our team! I don’t know where we’d be without her.” And, “Doc Robyn helped our team become whole again. I am eternally grateful for what she did.”

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Michelle Vallene is a qualified school teacher and the co-founder of Learners Lane which offers enrichment programs for children ages 4-12 and can be found at www.learnerslane.com. Michelle is the author of the book: What Children Need to Learn to Read, which book was written because when her children were young she could not find easy-to-use resources to help her kids build early literacy skills and prepare them for school. Her three children are teenagers now, and the project to help them on the road to literacy has blossomed into the Learners Lane enterprise with her book becoming a finalist in the Foreword’s 2010 Book of the Year Awards. An avid proponent of early child literacy skills, Michelle is on the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Early Learning, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to help “children be socially, emotionally, and intellectually prepared to succeed in school.”

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In this interview Michelle discusses such vital issues as the need for parent involvement in a child’s educational progress, the fact that parents are a child’s first and best teachers, and observations on the various learning styles of children.

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This is a no-holds barred interview with Dr. Gordon giving us first-hand in-the-trenches findings of facts regarding inner city minority student performance, why it is and what needs be done to improve it. Dr Gordon holds a Ph.D. in Educational Administration from NYU, a Master’s in teaching from Harvard. He has had numerous publications and a book on the subject: The Emperor has No Clothes: The crisis in American Inner City Schools. (Available thru Amazon.Com). He has consulted for many school districts in Mass., NJ, and NY; and has been principal evaluator of millions of dollars of New York City Public School programs. He was a professor at City Univ. of NYC and Clark University in Mass. Most important, he has had some 40 years in public education, most of which was in inner city schools, including E.Orange (NJ), Dallas(Tx) and Shreveport (La). Additionally, he was an assistant principal in an inner city school for 2 years(Orange, NJ). Thus, he know of what he speaks, first-hand and theoretically.

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This is a no-holds barred interview with Dr. Gordon giving us first-hand in-the-trenches findings of facts regarding inner city minority student performance, why it is and what needs be done to improve it. Dr Gordon holds a Ph.D. in Educational Administration from NYU, a Master’s in teaching from Harvard. He has had numerous publications and a book on the subject: The Emperor has No Clothes: The crisis in American Inner City Schools. (Available thru Amazon.Com). He has consulted for many school districts in Mass., NJ, and NY; and has been principal evaluator of millions of dollars of New York City Public School programs. He was a professor at City Univ. of NYC and Clark University in Mass. Most important, he has had some 40 years in public education, most of which was in inner city schools, including E.Orange (NJ), Dallas(Tx) and Shreveport (La). Additionally, he was an assistant principal in an inner city school for 2 years(Orange, NJ). Thus, he know of what he speaks, first-hand and theoretically.

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