education

Book Reviews

• Alison Clarke-Stewart, Virginia D. Allhusen: What We Know About Childcare
  - a survey of research into childcare in the United States
• David Crystal: Language Play
  - by adults and children
• Lise Eliot: Early Intelligence*
  How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life
• Anthony Kenny, Robert Kenny: Can Oxford be Improved?
  A View from the Dreaming Spires and the Satanic Mills
• Mary Jo Maynes: Schooling in Western Europe*
  - the introduction of mass elementary education
• Louis Menand: The Future of Academic Freedom
  - philosophical, legal, and ethical perspectives
• Daniel Pennac: Reads Like a Novel*
  - teaching and learning a love of reading
• W.B. Stephens: Education in Britain 1750-1914
  - elementary, secondary and higher education; literacy and science
• Maryanne Wolf: Proust and the Squid
  The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
• Reports of the National Center for Science Education
  - defending the teaching of evolution