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Children can become more intelligent, education expert says

There’s a common fear that everyone is born with an IQ number tattooed on their forehead that will never change: Some people will be smart and others will stay dumb.

For education researcher Phillip Adey, that’s an idea that needs to be pushed aside. Because according to his research over several decades in the British school system, it’s possible to grow a child’s intelligence.

Adey is a retired professor at Kings College London. He was in Missoula meeting with teachers and professors at the University of Montana this week discussing his findings as part of the UM chemistry department’s Richard Juday Lecture Series.
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“What he’s shown is that you can actually – through what you do in the classroom – make permanent changes in intelligence,” department Chairman Mark Cracolice said before Adey’s Wednesday night lecture. Adey’s work has been reviewed and published in a number of top British research journals and has become a part of Cracolice’s own graduate student program, he said.

By ROB CHANEY of the Missoulian

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/articles/2006/03/23/news/local/news04.txt

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