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Word: rosenthall (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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That philosophy prompted 26-year-old Lawrence Rosenthal to set up shop as a Manhattan investment banker. Six years later, at a ripe old 32, Rosenthal is a multimillionaire, and his L. M. Rosenthal & Co. has become a phenomenon in the clubby world of investment banking that is dominated by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street: Accent on Youth | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

Rosenthal noted that some professors "have been saying for a long time that some children are victims of educational self-fulfilling prophecies, but they just haven't been able to come up with data to prove it. We think we have."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Research Shows Student Does Well When His Teacher Expects Him To | 8/15/1967 | See Source »

Rosenthal began his test in the spring of 1964. With the permission of the principal of San Francisco's Spruce School, where students are divided into three "tracks"--fast, medium and slow--he gave an IQ test to all students in the school's kindergarten and first grades.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Research Shows Student Does Well When His Teacher Expects Him To | 8/15/1967 | See Source »

"There is no clear explanation for this finding," said Rosenthal, "but we can speculate that the teachers' pre-experimental expectancies of the more Mexican-looking boys' intellectual performances were probably slowest of all."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Research Shows Student Does Well When His Teacher Expects Him To | 8/15/1967 | See Source »

Rosenthal has conducted similar experiments at elementary schools in a Massachusetts suburb and a middleclass town in Ohio. Although Analysis of these two tests has not been completed, the results have not clearly corroborated the Spruce School findings."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Research Shows Student Does Well When His Teacher Expects Him To | 8/15/1967 | See Source »

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