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EVEN MORE CONTROVERSIAL than his busing statements are Jencks's findings on the role of genetics in determining educational and economic inequality. "Since the collapse of the liberal Democratic coalition in the late 1960's," he writes, "several leading academic psychologists have written articles arguing that genes play a significant...
Genes, says Jencks, do not directly determine the cognitive abilities of one group or another. But if genes affect an individual in a given way, but giving him a skin color or other distinguishing factor that allows society to discriminate against that individual, then genes have indirectly effected the individual...
Jencks is also a believers in the "so-what theory of genetic superiority, first popularized by Noam Chomsky. That is, he believes the whole argument about which race is more "intelligent" is a useless and inconsequential debate. "The importance of genetic differences between races is political rather than scientific. As...
MOST OF THE DIFFERENCES between the test scores of blacks and whites is due to cultural differences, according to Jencks. "You can go back and look at the Italians and Jews at the beginning of this century in New York," he said. "We have a student who took the school...
Jencks is an old hand at educational studies, surveys, and reformist ideas. As an undergraduate at Harvard he majored in English and wrote articles on higher education for the Crimson. His interest in educational reform led him to enter the Graduate School of Education, where he met David Riesman '31...