Word: engelmanns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Superior Mind is sold with the promise that if carefully followed, it will help a child "read 150 words a minute, add, subtract, multiply and divide, understand fractions and simple algebra, even handle abstract concepts and interpret them creatively"-all before he is five. It was written by Siegfried Engelmann, a research associate at the University of Illinois' Institute for Research on Exceptional Children, and his wife Therese, a psychologist. They argue unconvincingly that such intellectual giants as Goethe, Leibnitz, Mill and Macaulay benefited less from genes than from early teaching, conclude that parents can train their children...
Twelve Radcliffe seniors have been awarded Woodrow Wilson Fellowships for the year 1961-62. Announced as winners were Judith H. Anderson, Judith A. Conner, Nancy H. Decker, Hester A. Eigenstein, Kay P. Engelmann, and Sarah A. Fuller...