Word: neglectful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jensen's more thoughtful critics concede some validity to this point. "Our educational systems," writes Geneticist Lederberg, "often neglect a child's strongest capabilities, and hold him back while focusing on his weaknesses." J. McVicker Hunt, a psychologist at the University of Illinois, agrees with Jensen that the child's first exposure to formal education is confining when it should be expanding. Says Hunt: "I am among those few who are inclined to believe that mankind has not yet developed and deployed a form of early childhood education (from birth to age five) which permits...
...even more overwhelmingly in 1956 than in 1952 (57% of the popular vote v. Stevenson's 42%), he almost immediately ran into trouble. His Secretary of the Treasury, George Humphrey, disavowed his budget as too big. The economy slipped toward the worst recession since 1932. After a century of neglect, the problems of the nation's blacks burst forth. In 1954, the Supreme Court finally outlawed school segregation. Though Ike did not help to implement the decision, he did act when he had to, sending troops into Little Rock, Ark., in 1957 to enforce a court-ordered desegregation decree...
...Neglect of Negro revisionist historians has created the belief the Negroes have not been involved in history, Franklin said. American history is portrayed as "a series of great triumphs forged only by great white Americans...
Although Wolff states bluntly that the Committee's mandate did not include a discussion of the whole University structure, the Committee's objections to the Faculty's seeming neglect for the opinions of graduate students parallels criticism made in the Education School last week, the Law School two weeks ago, and the College throughout this year. The flexibility of the Wolff Report recommendations as they may apply to each department is the first opportunity for graduate students to become involved in decision-making committees. When committees are formed in each department to enact curriculum changes, graduate students should not only...
There are certain affirmative measures we believe that Harvard should take that would bear directly on the factor of neglect...