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
• 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
• 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