Mel Levine

Mel Levine
Meldon Edises Levineis an attorney and former Democratic Congressman from California. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 1993. He graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1960 and was student body presidentand valedictorian at the University of California, Berkeley. After attending Princetonand HarvardUniversities, he was admitted to the California bar in 1970, following which he set up a private practice...
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many of the individuals we see are heavily committed to something we call 'fun.'
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I think we pay a heavy price for misunderstood kids,
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We teach the child about his own strengths and weaknesses, and we give words they need for the things they need to work on,
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What I've tried to do . . . is create a whole model that got away from test scores and avoided labels like LD (learning disabled) or ADD (attention-deficit disorder), and use a profile of strengths and weaknesses.