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...culture of white middle-class America." Because many blacks are excluded from this mainstream by racial prejudice and class segregation, they never have a chance to acquire the information and mental attitudes and skills that lead to success on IQ tests. The same exclusion also has its impact on preschool-age children, she says. That accounts for the lower IQ scores of blacks in kindergarten. In sum, Sanday believes that her study demonstrates that over a period of time, school and community segregation combine to lower the IQs of the nation's blacks...
...Visual defects are common among American preschool children; the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness estimates that one child out of every 20 has an eye problem that, if uncorrected, can interfere with his intellectual and psychological development. And frequently the problem is not detected until the child enters school. That unfortunate delay may be avoided if parents use a simple do-it-yourself eye test developed by the N.S.P.B. The child is simply asked to study E-shaped figures on a chart from a distance of 10 ft. If he can tell which way the arms...
...well known (TIME, Nov. 7, 1969), but the existence of what Adelson calls the "battering child" has scarcely been recognized. To Adelson, the importance of his five cases "far transcends their number"; while death wishes in children are known to be common, very few adults are aware that a preschool child is actually capable of murder...
Home Teaching. The Moores believe that some form of preschool learning might well take place in the home, with state-hired professionals advising parents on how to nurture their children's growth (a technique currently being tried by HEW's Children's Bureau in Washington). "We must find a child's natural habitat and improve it," Raymond Moore told TIME, "and that habitat is the home." Even in poor families, he says, "most mothers want to stimulate and teach their children but first must be taught how to do it." Only when there is no alternative...
Besides emphasis on sports for the masses, there is a continuous sifting of East German talents that begins in some parts of the country at preschool age. In elementary school, sports rank in importance with the three Rs; four hours' participation a week is compulsory. Most schoolchildren from the age of six to 18 also participate in the Sparta-ciades, a series of sports contests on local, regional and national levels that culminates in a kind of domestic Olympic Games every two years...