Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the University announced the course last Wednesday, it neglected to explain the course's "balance," or that Cleaver was not being paid. A revised press release, issued on Thursday, tried to explain the subtleties of Cleaver's appointment, but by then explanations were too late. The public reaction had begun; it was immediate and predictable...
...Late Friday night the Regents released their decision. Billed as a "compromise," it virtually stripped the BED of its power. The compromise permitted the BED to invite lecturers for one lecture only; but the old course-creating power was removed. The Regents' vote was 10-8, with Reagan and his seven backers vigorously protesting the "leniency" of the plan...
...cent of the YD pollees who said they would support no candidate, three-quarters indicated that they had been supporters of Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, about five per cent each had favored the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy '48 and Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller. The other 15 per cent said they didn't like any candidate...
...That proposition is effectively documented in a new book called Pygmalion in the Classroom (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $4.95). The book tells of an ingenious experiment involving several teachers at a South San Francisco grade school who were deceived into believing that certain of their students had been spotted as "late bloomers." Eight months later, the chil dren's academic abilities showed dramatic improvement...
When tested later, the designated late bloomers showed an average IQ gain of 12.22 points, while the rest of the student body gained 8.42 points. The gains were most dramatic in the lowest grades. First-graders whose teachers expected them to advance intellectually jumped 27.4 points, second-graders 16.5 points. There were similar gains in reading ability. One young Mexican American, who had been classified as mentally retarded with an IQ of 61, scored 106 after his selection as a late bloomer...