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Ronald R. Edmonds, acting director of the Center for Urban Studies and Harvard's representative on the board, said yesterday that the criteria for selecting the speakers and the group of critics were "that they have the credentials but more importantly that they believe in the efficacy of social reform...
FAILING SCHOOLS. The schools, on the whole, seem to be serving middle-class children well. But in the inner cities, the all too familiar results are dismal. Explains Psychiatrist Robert Coles, who has made a study of the "children of poverty": "Many ghetto schoolteachers will tell you, if you interview...
Lowentin and Edmonds will speak on the subject, "I.Q. and Meritocracy--Fact or Fiction," Frances A. Maher '64, a CAR member, said yesterday.
Richard Lewontin, professor of Biology, and Ronald Edmonds, director of the Center for Urban Studies, will speak November 8 at the first public forum of the Committee Against Racism (CAR).
Edmonds said that he planned to "describe the alternatives to those who are interested in the existence of social services organized in a way that pays no attention to I.Q." "Schools should not have interest in a person's I.Q. because it doesn't tell you anything about the person...