The Huffington Post – Roberta Michnick Golinkoff
“The skills involved in carefully reflecting and planning instead of acting based on impulse are called “executive function” skills. They include focusing our attention on our goals, thinking flexibly, and avoiding distraction…Our current educational methods aren’t working well: the achievement gap between lower-income and higher-income communities continues to be unacceptably wide and our international rankings are embarrassingly low. EF enhancement will surely not lower children’s academic or social acumen. So, why not do it? Is it really problematic to improve children’s ability to focus, wait, plan, and not just do whatever their impulses suggest? And might these learning-to-learn skills be even more important in the 21st Century where children are deluged with information?”(more)