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Infant retardation can be reversed by sufficient environmental stimulation, Jerome Kagan, professor of Developmental Psychology, demonstrated in a recent report...
...Kagan said the report implies that American schools do not work long enough with "slow starters," particularly those living in poverty areas...
According to standard theory, such an experience during a child's first year should handicap him for life. But Harvard Psychologist Jerome Kagan last week reported quite different findings. By the time children in San Marcos reach the age of eleven, Kagan told the American Association for the Advancement of Science, they score as high on tests of memory, reasoning ability and perception as middle-class American children. So except in cases of physical defects, he concluded, "infant retardation is reversible, and cognitive development in the early years is plastic...
...Kagan, the implications for U.S. schools are obvious: they give up too early on slow starters in reading, writing and arithmetic-particularly those in slums. In contrast to critics like Harvard Sociologist Christopher Jencks, who argues that heredity and home environment determine how well children do in school, Kagan believes there is much that schools can do. Instead of judging all children according to how well they master "narrowly intellectual skills," he said, they should encourage deprived children in music, art and public speaking, while trying to help them catch up in other areas. Most of all, he said, teachers...
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