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...Most IQ tests lack the flexibility to gauge personal ability three Harvard professors told a crowd of more than 200 yesterday at the symposium entitled "Beyond the IQ...
Professor of Psychiatry Robert Coles '50, Senior Research Associate in Education Howard E. Gardner '65 and Associate Professor of Education Carol Gilligan all agreed that IQ tests are too one-dimensional to test contemporary society...
...IQ tests causes us to focus primarily on two types of learning, linguistic and mathematical skills," Gardner warned, the narrow focus results in an "individually centered curriculum," tailor-made for IQ tests...
...success. Since 1970, enrollment in early programs, both private and public, has surged from 4,104,000 to more than 6 million. Judging by the parental push, the trend will accelerate: at New York City's public Hunter College Elementary School, where two requisites for entry are a 135 IQ and a parental essay on the child, 1,500 applications pour in each year for 86 places in the pre-K and the kindergarten classes. The Sidwell Friends School in Washington (tuition: up to $5,000) sifts 300 applications for 28 pre-K spots so coveted that former Admissions Director...
...child, someone who is defined by the law as irresponsible, and who is presumably too immature to vote or to enter into a contract or to purchase alcohol and tobacco. Additionally, many of the criminals who have been executed recently have been mentally retarded--Roach, for instance, had an IQ of only 76. Certainly, a mentally impaired individual cannot make the sort of moral judgements assumed by the concept of capital punishment. The position is inconsistent and arbitrary, period. It also forgets that the young are the most likely to be rehabilitated; if anyone ought to be executed, the youngest...