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Over the past quarter-century, Kevin Phillips has built a reputation as a peerless predictor of major political trends. His first book, The Emerging Republican Majority, published in 1969, correctly forecast that the postwar Democratic dominance of presidential politics was over. Two decades and five books later, 1990's The Politics of Rich and Poor announced that the Republicans, in turn, would be turned out in a wave of neopopulism -- and, thanks to Ross Perot and Bill Clinton, out they went...
...against girls in the classroom. She criticizes a much publicized study finding that girls' self-esteem plunges at puberty. For one thing, the same study finds that black girls have much higher self-esteem than whites, which raises reasonable questions about what, if anything, "self- esteem" means as a predictor of future success...
...feel they're a reasonable predictor of academic work," says Dean K. Whitla, associate director for admissions and former member of the board of trustees of the Educational Testing Service, the makers...
...year-old British futurist, who has written more than 50 books, is often as prescient as he is prolific. Clarke has long warned about humankind's vulnerability to asteroid impacts, a subject that is just now capturing the attention of the scientific mainstream. "I'm not a predictor," says Clarke. "I'm an extrapolator. Sometimes I hear of a scientific discovery or invention, and then I say, 'What if? What would it imply...
Many educators argue that high SAT scores are no more accurate a predictor of academic success than high school class ranking or grade averages. They also charge that SAT success can be learned, pointing to cram schools that promise, for substantial fees, to raise students' scores by 100 points or more. After a two-year study, Dr. Stuart Katz, a University of Georgia psychologist, concluded last March that the verbal section of the SAT measures test-savvy, not reading ability. He found that 172 college students correctly answered, on average, 38% of the multiple-choice comprehension questions without even reading...