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Jumping Jack. The affected children, estimated to number as many as 3,000,000 under 15 in the U.S. today, are not mentally retarded. Most are about average or above in IQ ratings, usually high on verbal skills but lower on muscular coordination tests. It is their achievement quotients that are distressingly low. As many as 70% of the victims are boys; no one knows why. While the children do not all exhibit all the same symptoms, the jumping-jack hyperkinesis is present in at least 80%. Almost invariably there is a passion for handling things, often clumsily so that...
...Sams-known for much of his life as "Crazy George-" spent three years between 1961 and 1964 in various mental institutions in New York, where he was listed as an "alleged dangerous mental defective." In 1964, he was released after finally achieving a score of 75 on a standard IQ test-five points over the cutoff point for such a case...
...Sams-known for much of his life as "Crazy George" -spent three years between 1961 and 1964 in various mental institutions in New York, where he was listed as an "alleged dangerous mental defective.." In 1964, he was released after finally achieving a score of 75 on a standard IQ test-five points over the cutoff point for such a case...
...Tutorial Mix. X's rescue program involves rejecting all the prevailing values and substituting others of his own creation. The Ethnic Quotient, for instance, would replace the Intelligence Quotient (IQ)-a measurement that Professor X regards as "merely quantitative." Applied to public education, a student's E.Q. would determine his tutorial mix. In the case of young Ginsburg, his teachers would be Jewish, Mediterranean and Irish in just the same proportion as his own ethnicity. So would his curriculum-and, for that matter, his school lunches. For Ginsburg, this varied diet would alleviate the relatively high content...
Many social scientists believe that ghetto children are often mislabeled by the white world's IQ tests, which reflect the values of white middle-class culture. As they see it, black children are academically crippled not for lack of intelligence but because ghetto families are, at least by white standards, "culturally deprived...