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.

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Title: The Myth of the First Three Years, a new understanding of early brain development and lifelong learning
Publisher: Free Press, New York
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN 10: 0684851849
ISBN 13: 9780684851846
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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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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