Word: iq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pupils in the schools dropped 10% in one year (67.9% were Negroes last year). But part of the reason for this could well be the nationwide migration of families into the suburbs. It is also true that the Negroes have, on the whole, scored below their white classmates in IQ tests, but the inferiority of the all-Negro schools, rather than the pupils themselves, is to blame. Between 1945 and 1953, a total of 45,000 pupils had been on a half-day schedule because of overcrowding; of these, 80% were Negroes. Now all but about...
Though he had an IQ well above 125, the dark-haired ten-year-old boy had his teachers at San Francisco's Roosevelt Junior High School near despair. Day after day he would blurt out answers he knew were wrong, was so bored with his lessons that he rarely bothered to do them. His teachers had a name for him: he was just one more "gifted drifter...
Like the majority of school systems with programs for the gifted. Dade County, Fla. uses a combination of methods. It has a separate program for a group of children with an IQ of 130 or over. But for the most part the schools keep the bright with their regular classmates, separating them only in certain subjects. A fifth grade studying reading might have three groups-one reading at third-grade level, another at fifth-grade, the rest plunging into such classics as Moby Dick and The Swiss Family Robinson. The schools are also on the prowl for such students with...
...IQ tests given last year, Negro pupils scored well below their white counterparts. In 22 elementary schools that are 99% white, for instance, the average IQ was 105, while the average in predominantly Negro schools was only 87. Though the committee jumped to the false conclusion that these scores "verify the fact that there is a vast difference in the academic ability of the races," school officials have still had to divide their pupils into four groups, according to ability, and to give each group a different curriculum. "The result," said the committee, "is a new form of segregation: instead...
Died. Dr. Lewis Madison Terman, 79, longtime Stanford University psychologist, who developed the widely used Stanford-Binet IQ test in 1916, followed up his work with a 30-year study of 1,400 California schoolchildren with IQs past the threshold of genius (140-plus); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Palo Alto, Calif. Tester Terman's findings: his bright children grew up healthier, slightly wealthier and better employed than the average child, but the group contained "no mathematician of truly first rank, no university president . . . gives no promise of contributing any Aristotles, Newtons, Tolstoys ... In achieving eminence, much depends...