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What becomes of them--the dropouts, those who graduate with a "general" diploma but cannot read at more than an eighth grade level, if that? Well, they don't become "innovative" academics who "prove" the relative unimportance of schooling (e.g. Christopher Jencks, 'Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effect of Family...
He said another study by Burt, published after his death, found a 49 per cent correlation in parent-child I.Q. scores and that a review by Christopher S. Jencks '58, professor of Sociology, of five other parent-child studies found a 48 per cent correlation.
Earlier this week Brown said he had received advice on domestic affairs from Heller and Christopher S. Jencks '58, professor of Sociology, who last Tuesday denied any role in Brown's policy planning process.
Willie's apology was apparently directed at an article by David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II, professor of Social Sciences, and Christopher S. Jencks '58, professor of Sociology, published in the Harvard Educational Review in 1967. Riesman and Jencks referred in the article to "these marginal Negro colleges," and predicted...
Bird is at her weakest in overstating the financial advantage of not going to college. She plays games with statistics, arguing that if a high school graduate invested the equivalent of four years' college costs in a lump sum in a savings bank and went to work, his lifetime...