Education: Getting Smarter Sooner

Getting Smarter Sooner A moppet in kindergarten recites his ABCs, then confesses to his parents: "I learned it on Sesame Street, but my teacher thinks she taught me." It is not only young children who are ahead of themselves—or rather, ahead of the level where the traditional curriculum considers they should be. High school seniors also often find themselves bored to death, and even more bored when they discover that their freshman year in college repeats much of what they have already learned.

Tests show, in fact, that high school seniors are now as well informed as...

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