Word: fractionalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even worse, says Mayer, is the "general agreement" that "only a small fraction of children are truly educable on the secondary level." This is an illusion, owing to overreliance on IQ scores, which in fact can be raised by training. An example is New York City's "Higher Horizons" program, which has raised low IQs among "culturally deprived" children simply by inspiring them to aim for college (TIME, Oct. 12, 1959). Mayer suggests that U.S. education's test craze is largely a crutch for inadequate teaching. Good teachers take IQs lightly. At Louisville's Manly Junior High...
...instance," says Katzander, "French paintings now sell in Germany for a fraction of what they sell for in London. Paris or New York. This is something the buyer should know." Katzander thinks that buyers should also know such things as how to read an art catalogue. In one London auction house, if a painting is listed as "by John Constable, R.A.," it means that the house experts are confident of its authenticity. As confidence wanes, the listing changes-to plain "John Constable,'' then to "J. Constable." and finally to an abrupt "Constable...
...Robert E. Lusk. Over the years, Lusk said, the agency has suffered in silence while its two former owners* have taken turns knocking advertising, often to the bewilderment of clients unaware that neither "B" is connected any longer with B.& B. Both sold their interests, said Lusk, for "a fraction of a million dollars, and I mean a fraction." When Bowles sold out in 1941, the agency billed $10,500,000 a year; since his departure, the agency has achieved big-league status, last year billed...
George Wald, professor of Biology and head of the course, disclosed yesterday that only a fraction of a point separated the mean averages posted by the two groups at mid-term, with the biology concentrators and pre-med students doing slightly better...
Keeping Them Busy. Of the 100,000 tons of foodstuffs, only a fraction apparently reached the hungry people. At one point, 38,000 tons of food piled up in Peruvian ports, much of it rotting for lack of transport. Only a few hundred tons daily made its way up to the hills. Vast quantities were bought up by fast operators, who resold it to better-fed lowland folk at bargain prices. This maneuver was facilitated by the Peruvian government's decision to sell the food. The idea of charging a small sum, as one Peruvian explained at the time...