Word: rosenfelder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...argues balding Sam Rosenfeld, 40, veteran chemistry teacher at Hewlett (N.Y.) High School. This week he published a 188-page blueprint titled 30 Days To A Higher I.Q. For Your Child (Crown; $2.95), which consists of more than 700 problems and puzzles in the pattern of I.Q. tests. They will not make him brighter. But because "a poor showing on an I.Q. test can ruin your child's educational progress-perhaps forever," says Rosenfeld. "it is proper, even urgent that all children be taught how to take these tests...
...Rosenfeld offers himself as an example of I.Q. oddities. In World War II the Army pegged him at 119 on one test, at 134 on another. While later studying for his master's degree in science education at New York University, Rosenfeld volunteered to take a Stanford-Binet test in front of the class. He wound up with a "genius" I.Q. of 145 (which he hopefully regards as accurate). Later he saw more than one able student with top grades thrown out of honors programs because of low I.Q.. with teachers rationalizing that "he's obviously working...
Test-Wise Neurotics? Incensed at this notion of penalizing the "overachiever." Rosenfeld nine years ago began test-training his neighbors' children. He wrote his book to illustrate "the kind of reason ing used on I.Q. tests.'' Most helpful exercises are in speedier reading, such as the art of skimming, and such test-taking tips as how to mark machine-graded answers to save precious seconds. "Just knowing the technique of taking the test can increase the score." says Rosenfeld...
...Fantasy harks back to a number of abstract chamber works written (with a few exceptions) before 1935 and after 1946. Most are far less easily approached than the lyrical ballets; music critic Paul Rosenfeld once said that Copland's works of the early '30's "resemble nothing so much as steel cranes, bridges and the frame of skyscrapers." But although direct quotation of jazz and folk songs find little place in these pieces, both influences are now assimilated into his style and occur in an indirect fashion...