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Brain-Hostile Education: How Schools Are Failing Adolescents By Thomas Armstrong

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The article Brain-hostile’ education: how schools are failing adolescents by Thomas Armstrong focused on adolescent and how their brain functions. More simply, how adolescents tend to think and what they focus on. For instance, adolescents that are stressed tend to focus on everything that is causing them stress, instead of focusing on school. Stress affects adolescents thinking process and decision making, so they may lack in their academics, because they are not retaining information. The article also focused on how adolescents’ environment can affect them. For instance, what activities they are involved in as well as peers. More simply, some adolescents may be focused in school, because they are surrounding by people that encourage and
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