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...Teachers' organizations take the position that because of the family background of their students, the public schools can't do any better," Peterson said. "This smacks of the pessimism of the Herrnstein position...
Peterson said the results of the study, "The Effectiveness of School Choice in Milwaukee," help to refute the claims of Charles A. Murray '65 and the late Richard J. Herrnstein in The Bell Curve that intelligence is determined in part by race...
Peterson added that a "primary motivation" in his decision to become involved in the study was his desire to stem the influence of Herrnstein and Murray's book on education policy...
...Bell Curve was published with much fanfare. In this work, Charles Murray '65 and the late Richard J. Herrnstein argued that intelligence is inheritable and black and Latinos come up short on every test. Since one author has a degree from Harvard, and the other was a professor at the University, their words and ideas have been taken by many Americans as gospel. Likewise, Agassiz, Morton and a number of other 19th-century scholars connected to prestigious universities and foundations operating from racist perspectives saturated the public with pseudoscientific proof that African-Americans were inferior. The 1990s is a repeat...
...supposed" motivation behind past academic racism and present-day scholarly racial prejudice remains the same: protecting the United States (i.e., white Americans and some Asian groups) from the degenerate effects which would stem or have stemmed from letting blacks and Latinos into the body politic and social contract. Mansfield, Herrnstein, Murray and D'Souza argue that the academic rigors of society and Americans' competitiveness is decreasing because of the large number of undesirables and unqualifieds entering universities and jobs all around the country at the expense of bright whites and Asians. The argument reminds one of the segregationist platform...