First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover and dust jacket both appear as a very nice clean copy from the outside, but there is some underling and margin notes inside. Seller Inventory # 114195

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Title: The Myth of the First Three Years, a new ...

Publisher: Free Press, New York

Publication Date: 1999

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition

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A pointed challenge to the opinion that the most important development of the brain happens up to the age of three shows how development actually continues through life and that the early years have been harmfully overemphasized in educational theories.

About the Author:

John T. Bruer, Ph.D., has been President of the James S. McDonnell Foundation in St. Louis since 1986. He also works as a consultant on educational issues for the national media, including The New York Times Magazine. He is author of Schools for Thought: A Science of Learning in the Classroom. Dr. Bruer lives in St. Louis with his wife and two sons.

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