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After three months at Kansas City's Sanford B. Ladd School, 29-year-old Gwen Eades found U.S. youngsters "very much like English children," but not as far along as children the same age she knew at London's Southfield Road Infants' School. There the kids start school at three, begin to read at five-some two years earlier than...
...sent to the U.S. for health and diet charts and hung them in the school hall. After studying them for a day and finding only milk and cocoa on the beverage list, the Southfield Road children came to her and said: "But please, miss, where...