I would be interested in reactions to the following quote from Cole's
Chapter 13.
Nate
"Overall, the picture that emerges from extensive research on schooling
provides only minimal support for the idea that schooling changes the
cognitive processes associated with middle childhood in any deep and
general way. In those cases in which schooling has been found to affect
cognitive performance, the effect appears to be restricted to rather
specific information-processing strategies or to a specific context that is
relevant primarily, if not exclusively, to school itself (Cole, 1990)."