A review of Betty Hart and Todd Risley, Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children. Baltimore: Brookes. 1995. 268 pp. ISBM 1-55766-197-9. Hardcover; $22.00.
Travis Thompson is Director of the John F. Kennedy Center.
This manuscript was prepared in part with funds provided by P30 HD15052 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to Vanderbilt University. The author expresses his gratitude to Ford Ebner, Director of the Institute of Developmental Neuroscience and Averill King of the Susan Gray School for Children of the John F. Kennedy Center, as well as Ann M. Neely, Assistant Provost and Professor of Education, Vanderbilt University, and David Lubinski, Co-Director of the Center for Gifted Youth, Iowa State University, for their thoughtful suggestions and comments.
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