Word: grouped
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...operates as a threshhold variable in affecting development. Below a certain minimum threshhold of environmental benefits, the genetic potential of an individual does not develop, and cannot be considered an important variable in determining IQ. But Jensen never quantifies the threshhold level. He merely indicates, somewhat arbitrarily, that minority-group students are not below it. They very well might...
...EXPECTATIONS are particularly insidious when they are coupled with the institution of "tracking" or ability grouping. Most urban schools group children according to ability as soon as they enter first grade. It doesn't take much imagination to figure out who gets placed in the low ability groups. The net effect is that the majority of black pupil are doomed to under-achieving at age six. The "poorer" first grade students cover less material than their "brighter" peers, supposedly because they are unable to handle as much...
...genetic populations we call races no doubt have different distributions of whatever genes influences psychological processes. We are in no position to guess, however, which pools are "inferior." Such a comparison is not meaningful, except in terms of the probability that the member of the group will be able to cope in some specific way with some specific challenge, after he has developed for a specified period in some specified environment...
Gilbert said he was "sick of defending the Pudding for what it's not." He and others said they want "to create an image of the Pudding as a respected theatre group instead of just a bunch of clubbies...
...University needs, if only to list its own events. A great many universities publish such calendars at their own expense and distribute them to the entire university community. However, those are, for the most part, state universities where practically all cultural and social events are sponsored by some university group. The students of a metropolitan university such as Harvard cannot expect the University to subsidize Boston and Cambridge theatres, so any calendar must be provided by a private group such...