Getting the Lead Out. Erik Ness.
by Ness, Erik; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 303Environment. Publisher: Rethinking Schools, 2003ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): Children -- Education | Children -- Health and hygiene | Children and the environment | Children of minorities | Environmental justice | Intelligence tests | Lead poisoning in children | Learning ability | Minorities and the environment | Pollution | Poor children | Students -- Health and hygieneDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Colleen Moore is tapping her finger. It's her right index finger, and it travels up and down with the precision of a metronome. She's not nervous, impatient, or compulsive. She's demonstrating the finger-tapping test, which illuminates the loss of function that occurs when someone has been poisoned by lead, mercury, or organophosphate pesticides." (RETHINKING SCHOOLS) This article discusses the effects of environmental pollutants, noting that they are putting "an increasing and measurable burden on the education of American children." It focuses on six pollutants--lead, mercury, PCBs, pesticides, noise, and radioactive and chemical wastes--and reveals how they "hamper children's ability to develop and learn."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2004.
Originally Published: Getting the Lead Out, Winter 2003; pp. 18-21.
"Colleen Moore is tapping her finger. It's her right index finger, and it travels up and down with the precision of a metronome. She's not nervous, impatient, or compulsive. She's demonstrating the finger-tapping test, which illuminates the loss of function that occurs when someone has been poisoned by lead, mercury, or organophosphate pesticides." (RETHINKING SCHOOLS) This article discusses the effects of environmental pollutants, noting that they are putting "an increasing and measurable burden on the education of American children." It focuses on six pollutants--lead, mercury, PCBs, pesticides, noise, and radioactive and chemical wastes--and reveals how they "hamper children's ability to develop and learn."
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