Word: layzer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the bottom up ("this is really pretty neat"). His excitement is contagious. And he knows all the eccentricities of the place: "There're lots of funny license plates around here. Fred Whipple's--he's the guy that did all that work on comets--says COMETS, and David Layzer's say HAAVAD and ENDURO...
Name of person to whom you report: David Layzer...
...October, after William M. Preston, director of the Physics labs, complained to the Personnel Department about the quality of her work. District 65 provided Schroder with a lawyer, and after a series of hearings and a month of paid suspension Personnel resolved the matter by relocating her with Layzer, one of Harvard's most liberal professors. "At first," she says, "I thought I had such a hard time because I was German, because I was foreign. But then I found out other people had the same problems. When you want a raise, you have to go in there by yourself...
Allow me to correct some of the impressions that may have been left by Jeffrey Dunn's piece ("Layzer Wants SAT's Replaced by Specific Competence Tests," April 9). My article in the March 29 issue of Science, referred to in the opening paragraph of The Crimson story, neither mentions SAT's nor does it have any direct implications concerning their use by college admissions officers. Since SAT scores are good statistical predictors of scholastic performance in the freshman year, they are clearly relevant to the selection process. I agree with Henry Dyer, a recently retired vice-president of Educational...
...showing that appropriate educational and social programs can greatly accelerate the cognitive development of children from poverty backgrounds. The evidence already accumulated is extremely encouraging, and flatly contradicts the doctrine that IQ measures an innate capacity and that low IQ indicates an inability to acquire "higher" cognitive skills. David Layzer...