Are Grading Trends Hurting Socially Awkward Kids?
Eccentric children -- including those on the autism spectrum -- often have unique academic abilities. But today's teaching philosophies are making hard for them to shine. More »
Katharine Beals is a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and an adjunct professor at the Drexel University School of Education. She is the author of Raising a Left-Brain Child in a Right-Brain World: Strategies for Helping Bright, Quirky, Socially Awkward Children to Thrive at Home and at School.
Eccentric children -- including those on the autism spectrum -- often have unique academic abilities. But today's teaching philosophies are making hard for them to shine. More »
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