Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suspect that English-American children who are brought up in Southern Baptist churches perceive things differently and might really deserve the top spot upon the pyramid. Southern-English-American-Episcopalians regard these assertions with a great deal of amusement. But who really knows? We all will if the ethnic learning line of research is extended logically to include every possible ethnic, regional and religious stock...
CREATION of multi-ethnic and multi-racial tests would also be a method of bringing some good out of the situation. If the only way to make exactly the same score on test items is to be of the same race, economic class, ethnic stock, and religious persuasion as the committee that developed the instrument, then we either must make intensive efforts to inter-marry, re-distribute income and institute religious purges and programs in this country or we must try to integrate more multi-racial and multi-ethnic material into the instruments. Said in the words of Dr. Nathan...
...might decide that making exactly the same score is not important for all races and religions and come up with an Ethnic Success Quotient for tests based on validation studies of all the hyphenated groups we are going to study. Under such a system a Richmond-born-Episcopalian of English stock from a family with an income of $12,000 would be declared below average if his Binet score was below 120. A score of 100 would relegate him to success quotient oblivion as a low normal...
White disadvantaged children are being imprinted in the same manner in some studies. Ethnic and religious backgrounds have not been treated...
There might be a problem or two here regarding people who might want to imprint their children with their own brand of thinking or who have deep affection and preference for certain racial, ethnic or religious ways of thinking. Other parents might not want the new imprints to attend their schools on an integrated basis or live in their neighborhoods and play in their recreation centers. Something in the imprinting would thus be lost in this sort of forced isolation...