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The Aptitude MythHow an Ancient Belief Came to Undermine Childrens Learning Today\nAuthor(s): Cornelius N. Grove\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield Education\nISBN-13: 9781475804362, 978-1475804362\nSynopsis\nThe Aptitude Myth addresses the decline in American childrens mastery of critical school subjects. It contends that a contributing cause for this decline derives from many Americans ways of thinking about childrens learning: They believe that school performance is determined very largely by innate aptitude. The Aptitude Myth traces the deep historical origins, the spread and elaboration, and the eventual triumph of the belief in the determining power of mental abilities given at birth and therefore fixed. Covered is 600 [url] until [tel]when the [url] was first administered).\nThe belief in aptitude, assumed by many Americans to be the modern view of learning ability, is revealed as an archaic way of thinkin.