Word: rosenthall
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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...
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."
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.
"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."
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."