Word: iq
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hope that we have not yet gotten to the point in this country where we have an elite of high IQs," insisted New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller while plumping for his new education bill that would help all students, not just brains. "I happen not to have such a high IQ," confessed Rocky, who nonetheless was Phi Beta Kappa at Dartmouth. "But I feel that I should have a right to get an education, too, and it shouldn't matter that my family doesn't have enough money to send me to college." Then, before he could...
Died. Irving Lorge, 55, research psychologist and authority on intelligence testing who decried the theory of the immutable intelligence quotient, held instead that proper schooling could raise a child's IQ by 20 points; of a heart attack; in New York City. An outspoken theorist who never lost sight of practicalities, Lorge rewrote wartime OPA regulations into understandable English as part of a crusade for greater readability in public documents, insisted that trashy books do not cause juvenile delinquency and argued that teachers ought to learn the lingo of their students...
Make It Exciting. Principal Brown, 43, went on to revamp everything else at Melbourne. Most notably, he did away with ranking students from freshman to senior. Whatever their ages, youngsters pursue any course they can handle. Scores on aptitude and IQ tests are largely ignored. "Achievement alone is the criterion for placement," says Brown. "A student can conceivably pursue college calculus while taking a remedial English course at the fourth-grade level...
Maybe the influence of Canaveral's scientists makes for a community interested in schooling, but Brown denies that Melbourne is extra good because its students are extra bright. "Our IQ level is only slightly above average," he says...
...this turmoil may have more to do with fostering creativity than does a high IQ, says Psychologist Goertzel. He also argues that "it is not true that traumatic experiences in childhood invariably lead to emotional disturbances and failure." (Only one of his first 77 cases, Cross Founder Clara Barton, was ever confined to a mental hospital.) His subjects loved their mixed-up homes, mainly rebelled against a mixed-up society...