Solvation

Transcript of Shiller on Charlie Rose

I am moderating a week-long forum on Skoll's SocialEdge on "What is Wealth." In that, I refer to the video of the interview Charlie Rose did of Robert Shiller. It was brought to my attention that as broadband is limited in areas where many Skoll participants are, that this would be useless to them.

So I sought to provide a link to the transcript, but unfortunately, Charlie Rose's site has a layout problem, and it's unreadable, at least to me.  So I copied-and-pasted it here and cleaned up the tags until it laid out like it should.

Book Review

In a fabulous book, "Doing School" How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students, by Denise Clark Pope, the author illustrates just how thoroughly kids have internalized our zeitgeist-driven anxiety that it's all slipping away.

It's a stressful read, but one that every parent and every educator should do, and frankly many older students would do well to read and discuss this book... if they have time.

Funny in Farsi

Just finished Funny in Farsi.  It's on the sidebar.  If you grew up elsewhere but your kids are growing up in the US, you'll enjoy it, I'm sure.

Good choice for High School kids' biography selection if they need one.  Some younger kids may like it too, but she spends a considerable amount of time talking from enough of an adult perspective that some kids might not be able to relate to it until they're older.

Synopsis of Baruch Lev's book

Baruch Lev has a book called Intangibles: Management, Measurement, and Valuation.  Published in 2001 by Brookings Press, it's a brilliant orientation to the relatively new field.  I've run through the main points here.

Intangible Financial Standards - (Discussion Ch. 1-2)

Unfortunately, this particular book is a bit uneven.  I believe it's likely that his earlier book, which I don't have, would have been the preferable one to start with, but I'll go ahead and start here, discussing the issues as they come up.

Books for Bright Boys with Average Maturity

Yet another person has asked me about books to buy for her elementary aged son whose ability to read fluently as a child has landed him in the realm of literary social and emotional situations that are far beyond him. 

So I've decided to pull together a list.  (I've used my Amazon Associate's thingy, so if you eventually decide to buy for me to get referral credit you'll have to click all the way through from that window, though if you buy the used ones for a penny....)

First, if you're raising a boy or have something to do with education, you absolutely should read Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys, by Kindlon and Thompson. 

This is a NY Times Bestseller written by two child psychiatrists with experience at school sites working with kids and families from a variety of backgrounds.  They point out that boys who don't develop well emotionally often become aggressive, withdrawn, and/or avoidant teenagers and depressed, lonely middle-aged men.  It discusses how to build emotional resilience and depth in boys, and identifies ways that boys can inadvertently have their emotional development stunted.

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Books for Advanced Readers
of Average Social Maturity

JON SCIESZKA
The Jon Stewart of Picture Books is funny for older kids, too.

TODD STRASSER
Putting yourself in someone else's shoes, literally!

MICHAEL DELANEY
Civics and old-timey broadcasting

KATE MCMULLAN
A Scieszka-like "What Really Happened," as told by cynical big-bro Hades

GARY BLACKWELL
Clever!

ROALD DAHL
Of Willy Wonka fame.  "Boy" and "Going Solo" are auto-biographies, good for ages 11+