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Such a connection may prove difficult to demonstrate. A number of experts-including Sociologists James S. Coleman of Johns Hopkins and Christopher S. Jencks of Harvard-argue that more spending does little to improve a child's achievement in school, and that the school itself is less important in...
The past week's actions, representatives of SDS and PLP say, are only the opening shots in a "series of attacks" that will seek the firing of Herrnstein and Christopher S. Jencks, associate professor of Education and lecturer on Sociology, and an end to the use of their works as...
The demonstrators also presented Herrnstein with an invitation to a P.L.-sponsored forum to be held Thursday discussing whether Herrnstein and Christopher S. Jencks, associate professor of Education and lecturer on sociology, should be allowed to teach, Messing said. Herrnstein said last night that he had declined the invitation.
A third and in some ways the most serious criticism of Harvard departments as meritocracies is that they are self-defining elites. The men who compose the English Department look for Richard Ellmann, the Sociology Department takes Christopher Jencks, and the Economics Department rejects Samuel Bowles, and in each case...
Jencks first became interested in education as a Harvard undergraduate when he took Social Sciences 136, "Character and Social Structure in America."