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...Kagan, the implications for U.S. schools are obvious: they give up too early on slow starters in reading, writing and arithmetic-particularly those in slums. In contrast to critics like Harvard Sociologist Christopher Jencks, who argues that heredity and home environment determine how well children do in school, Kagan believes there is much that schools can do. Instead of judging all children according to how well they master "narrowly intellectual skills," he said, they should encourage deprived children in music, art and public speaking, while trying to help them catch up in other areas. Most of all, he said, teachers...
...include books of psychology such as Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's On Death and Dying and Herman Feifel's The Meaning of Death, supplemented with lectures by doctors and clergymen. Elsewhere, students even hear tape-recorded interviews with people who are dying. Says University of Minnesota Sociologist Robert Fulton: "The point is to bring a new perspective to death; to show that it is natural and to counter some of the euphemistic devices our society uses to hide death and dying...
MIGRANTS, SHARECROPPERS, MOUNTAINEERS and THE SOUTH GOES NORTH by Robert Coles. The second and third volumes in a series by a Harvard sociologist who examines poor Americans with love and squalor...
...struggle against the Jews" and warned Catholics that racism ignores "decisive doctrines of Catholic faith and morals." No one knows why the encyclical, which presumably was known to Pius XI's successor, Pius XII, was not promulgated. Historians can only guess what it might have accomplished; Sociologist Gordon Zahn argued in N.C.R. that "Nazi anti-Semitic practices might not have escalated to the stage of planned extermination; more important, Catholics in countries soon to be occupied might have been less ready to cooperate when the time came...
...younger set is likely to converge at Donovan's Copper Bar or the Nu Gnu or the Ore House, where the talk-and interest-seems to focus on skiing above all else, even sex. The newest favorite place is the Ichiban, a Japanese restaurant run by a sociologist, a dental hygienist and an architect-all of them people under 30 who left their careers and homes in Boston and Seattle in order to live close to the mountain. This is the scene at Vail, Colo., an instant alpine community that is the most successful winter resort built...