FYI from Leigh at Lunch 3/17/10

If you are interested in topics that came up during this week's show, here are a few links and tips from Leigh at Lunch on Blog Talk Radio 3/17/10, "Leigh for Lunch with Andrew Pudewa" (Click on the title to listen to the show archive now).

Coming soon from 1 Smart Mama

Tune in next Wednesday, March 24, at 12 noon EST to listen to a pre-recorded conversation between Leigh and astronaut James Dutton, a CC dad. Upcoming guest Ravi Zacharias has been rescheduled for a later date.

Ongoing events

Click here to register for the Stanford test through CC. Purchase test prep books from the CC Bookstore.

Leigh's newest book, The Core, will be released in June! Pre-order it on Amazon.

Find out more about CC's summer student camps and *free* Parent Practicums on the CC website. Register today!

Notes from today's show

Andrew Pudewa is the director of the Institute for Excellence in Writing.

Today's giveaway, Portable Walls from IEW, are now available from the CC Bookstore.

Upcoming events: Next week, Andrew will be speaking in Fredericksburg and Richmond, VA. In April, Andrew will join Leigh and others at a conference in Cincinnati, OH. July 26-29 2010, IEW will be hosting a Writing Educator's Symposium in Winston-Salem, NC.

Find out more about IEW's Linguistic Development Through Poetry Memorization.

The article "One Myth and Two Truths" is available for download here.

Oliver DeMille is the author of A Thomas Jefferson Education.

You can read more about Pedro Menéndez de Avilés here. An engraving is available from the Library of Congress website.

Andrew recommended the book The Flickering Mind: The False Promise of Technology in Education by Todd Oppenheimer. Leigh also recommends You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier, not for worldview, but for his perspective on what technology has done to intelligence.