An excerpt from our correspondent's new book on where intelligence comes from -- and why exposure to words as a child matters
A 1995 study which suggested that kids from richer families are exposed to more spoken words than those from poorer families has long been the subject of controversy. Now, a new study fails to replicate its central finding.
The basic unit of the sentence is doing more than it ever was before. An Object Lesson.
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