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Standardized tests have also recently become a focus of attack in Congress. A bill now before the House of Representatives may force major changes in the content of standardized tests and limit the role the tests play in the admissions process. And the Bakke case, now before the Supreme Court, challenges the legitimacy of these tests altogether, as proponents of affirmative action charge that the tests are culturally biased...
That poverty, unemployment, slum housing, and inadequate education underlie the nation's urban riots is well known, but the obviousness of these causes may have blinded us to the more subtle role of other possible factors, including brain dysfunction in the rioters who engaged in arson, sniping, and physical assault...
...give himself a target for an assault on determinism. Chavkin writes, "Wilson's contention is that it is the genes and not cultural evolution or socioeconomics or political environment that are responsible for human behavior." In fact, Wilson simply says that genes play a large, but not solo, role in shaping human behavior; he would hardly be happy with Chavkin's characterization of his ideas...
...Weight" and other standbys. The Band is so consistent that these songs always sound great, but there is a slight difference between their 1977 renditions and the sound of their 1974 "Before the Flood" tour with Dylan. Four years ago, Garth Hudson's wailing organ played a more central role in The Last Waltz. Robertson's lead guitar dominates most of the songs. Either way, the sound is worth the price of admission...
NOTWITHSTANDING ITS MEASURED, impartial tone and its concentration on national trends and general educational advances, American Higher Educationis fueled by its author's determination to assert the accomplishments of the post-World War II years, a determination born out of the role Pusey played in many of those achievements. For many readers, the most interesting section of the book will be the chapter dealing with the conflicts in education. As a college president during the Red-hunting years whose opposition to McCarthy gained him national prominence, and as one whose career eventually foundered on the Harvard Strike of 1969 Pusey...