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Hall, Richard W. – College Composition and Communication, 1972
Examines the emphasis in our culture which is placed on intelligence as measured by educational tests and suggests four possibilities to prevent an educational aristocracy. (RB)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Culture, Education, Environment
Pezzullo, Thomas R.; And Others – 1972
Heritability is defined as the proportion of a manifested trait's varience that is due to genetic variation. Sixty-five pairs of twins were employed to investigate the heritability of: (1) short term memory (Jensen's Level 1), operationalized using of modified "digit span" test; (2) the general intellective factor (Jensen's Level II),…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Compensatory Education, Genetics, Heredity
Stone, Chuck – 1971
Psychologists and a few sociologists have provided the academic respectability for the political rationale that the American body politic's civil rights indigestion needs a resurrected, separate but equal diet. Today, it is intellectually respectable to question the genetic equality of whites and blacks, to assert the cognitive incapacities of…
Descriptors: Black Students, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education