Recommended Read: Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience

A book I reviewed about five years ago, Michael S. Gazzaniga, PhD's Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience, always ends back up on my mind when I teach adolescent development. I thought today would be a good day to share my old post on it and encourage you all to take some time to pick it up. 

The blurb I have up in the post: 

Dr. Gazzaniga, the father of cognitive neuroscience, tells his tale in this book. In 1960's, he begins his work on split-brain patients to figure out what happens when the two sides of the brain aren't directly connected. His findings, and his subsequent researched, changed how we understand the brain works. He enumerates his esteemed colleagues, and makes no bones about his conservative leanings and his friendship with William S. Buckley, Jr. He takes us through his journey as a scientist, and while doing this makes us all a little bit smarter and a little more human.

Blog post here.

Book Review -- Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data

It's hard to find statistics books that are layman-friendly; most are written for an audience of statisticians, even if the goal was to write one for the masses. I loved Charles Wheelan's Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data as one that makes how to read data understandable and clear. It's also an interesting read, full of anecdotes and explanations of how to understand the basics. I highly recommend!

Book Review - Small Animals: Parenting in the Age of Fear

I highly recommend Kim Brooks' Small Animals: Parenting in the Age of Fear, which you can read all about here, for parents and educators alike. 

Book Review - Savage Inequalities

Jonathan Kozol's Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools is one of those books that may be older, but shows us that the more things change, the more things stay the same -- particularly in educational inequality. 

The review is here: 

https://sassypeachreads.blogspot.com/2016/10/savage-inequalities-children-in.html

Book Review - The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog

Over on my book blog, I reviewed one of the most profound and affecting books I have ever read. It remains with me to this day, and it started my journey down the research rabbit hole on trauma. I highly recommend it, and I hope you find it as important as I do. 

Link here: http://sassypeachreads.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-boy-who-was-raised-as-dog-and-other.html

Book Review - The Prize: Who's In Charge of America's Schools

This was a very interesting and informative piece on what happened in Newark city schools between the announcement of Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million donation and 2015, which marked the end of the five-year proposed turnaround. The link is to my book blog where I posted on it this morning.

The Prize: Who's In Charge of America's Schools by Dale Russakoff

Book Review - $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

If you head over to my book blog, you will find my post on one of the books I recommend in class: $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. It's well worth a read.