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# Ungifted Paperback – March 24, 2015

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## Customer Reviews

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    Dense info, very thought-provoking points
  

*by K***K on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 30, 2013*

As other reviewers have noted, Ungifted is part personal story, part professional opinion, and lots of reviewed and summarized research.As for the research, this book is not an easy, engaging layperson's read along the lines of Bronson and Merryman's Nurture Shock, which I also enjoyed. In Ungifted, be prepared for some intellectual heavy lifting at times.  The author is reviewing and summarizing tons of studies, painting a picture as complex as the topics he covers, as well as highlighting areas where more research is needed to answer remaining mysteries.  When he was talking about something I wasn't that interested in, I became a bit bored slogging through all the material.  But when it was a topic I was interested in, I appreciated every last drop of the information. Having read this cover to cover, I'd advise readers who find themselves in the midst of a topic they're not as interested in as others to just skim along a bit.  You don't need to digest everything to understand the overall points he's making.When it comes to the author's personal story and informed opinions, this has got to be one of the most likeable authors whose work I've ever read -- a mix of humility, vulnerability, compassion, determination, intelligence, humor and great accomplishment. Throughout the book are instances where what researchers know and what happens in practice to students are at odds. The author's personal story illustrates many lessons learned from the research he reviews on the landscape of human intelligence and achievement, but he's also enough of an exception to some of those correlations to serve as a vivid reminder that all should be encouraged and supported. While there are variables that increase or decrease one's likehihood of, say, getting a PhD from Yale, the author illustrates that we always need  to be open to letting people surprise us.Something I noticed is that the author seems to have come from a loving home with at least middle class, if not greater, resources.  He had access to, and time to pursue, opportunities (some of which the author himself created) that helped him navigate an alternative route to high achievement as an adult.  It's no secret that money buys advantage and opportunity, and such access by no means diminishes the author's achievements or the grit, creativity, intelligence and determination that won them. Lots of young people have time and resources but never do a quarter as much with them as this author.The author's story did, however, get me thinking of the loss we endure as a society when we not only underestimate certain students' abilities but also fail to provide them -- if their parents cannot -- with opportunities and resources enabling them to navigate an alternative route to achievement. The voices of people who've "come up" through non-traditional paths, like the author's, have a lot to contribute that cannot be obtained from others.  How many voices never contribute to our understanding and well-being when millions of poor children have only closed doors if they are underestimated during their school years?  Existing efforts to help economically poor children level the playing field seem to focus on those who most closely fit our traditional expectations for high potential.  What about all the others?The prejudices against economically poorer students' abilities strikes me as similar to the prejudices we hold against K-12 students like the author once was.  The author had one of these formidable challenges to overcome, but fortunately not both.  Had the author been economically poor as well, I doubt he'd be the researcher and fine teacher he is, through both his intellectual power and personal example. What a tremendous loss that would have been.  This book should go a long way in explaining what we know and don't yet know about the depth and breadth of human intelligence and achievement, how to maximize potential, and why we should never snuff out any student's dreams in service to our own preconceived notions about what's possible.

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*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 14, 2014*

I read it and found it interesting. Of how we are treated. These IQ tests are designed to test you if you are smart or not. But to find out how well educated you. But they used it to place you classification of are you mental retarded, average, or gifted or even a genius. But what if you were tested and you did you do well. But you have talent in math or poetry. Or something else. But you were stamped as mentally retarded. You weren't except to do so well. You weren't excepted to get better than your average below average classification.Okay imaging you were educated in a time. Before internet, cable, satellite tv. Laptop computers, Cellular phone, tablets, etc, etc. The only information was your local library. And that was only as good of what they had in there shelves. You when through school being the educated to the best they believed you could understand. And never had the chance to improve your skills and education to the maximum. To put it simply you weren't give the first chances. Never mind the second or third change.You grew-up hoping that you can improve your skills to get ahead. But to only find out that stigma is still with you. You shouldn't do well. If you halve a great day. And do great. You were told you couldn't do so well. That you cheated. They know you. It impossible for to do it. You start to believe that your not so smart. That they're test is right. But you that they wrong. Because don't  understand why. They simple states that the way things are.If you don't fit in their catalog. They place you that category that fit the major problem. When after several gridding years you were put in regular classes with no help. To improve you normal classes. So you would do poor. Said by your high school years. By accident the first IQ testing  were wrong. They re-testing and your more smart average you have stigma of being retarded. But you still don't believe because  you don't have the information of the modern era of information.What of the those who are lost. What there potential. What about forgotten. What terrible wasted.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    really insightful and well organized book
  

*by M***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 12, 2022*

I couldn't read it quickly because as a late-diagnosed, at 44, autistic human I kept running into similar and same experiences to Dr. Kaufman's, not to mention having put together back in my teens and twenties a LOT of the observations and conclusions he puts forth as fairly recent scientific and clinical "discoveries" about autism and education. This book really brought up many emotions from way, way down deep, and so it took me the better part of two weeks to read it. Also, there was a lot of information to unpack in there, and I sometimes had to go read up on some other things he mentioned in it in order to understand fully what he was talking about. (That's pretty cool to have to do, really.) -- 5/5. Recommended.

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