Joy Hakim is trying to change the way we deliver information in our schools. She says stories are the way to go; they not only charge the mind, they provide a base for remembering. So she has tackled the traditional subjects--history and science--and put their information in narrative clothing.
Says Joy: "Much school learning in recent years has been fact and test driven, with no narrative base. It hasn't worked. The way cultures have traditionally passed on their ideas is through stories. The Greeks knew that, and so, too, did Mr. McGuffey, whose 'readers' taught generations of Americans."…
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