Word: yearbooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, with blood in their eyes, the nation's leading psychologists gathered in St. Louis. On their way to the meeting-the annual convention of the National Society for the Study of Education-they read both sides of the controversy in the Society's yearbook, Intelligence: Its Nature and Nurture(Public School Publishing Co., Bloomington, Ill.; two volumes...
...Stoddard had found supporters. The yearbook reported that identical twins reared in separate homes had different I.Q.s. Southern Negroes who moved to Harlem (and thus got better schooling) raised their I.Q.s. Psychologist Robert Ladd Thorndike (son of famed Edward Lee Thorndike) had examined the records of some 1,100 children in three famed progressive schools (Horace Mann, Lincoln, Ethical Culture), found that in two schools children's I.Q.s were static, but in the third (unidentified) there was an average I.Q. gain of more than six points...