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...whose job is to change people." The reason, he says, is that schools cannot control the factors that most determine test scores: heredity and home environment. Jencks believes that genes play a significant role in determining IQ, though he does not assign to them the overwhelming importance found by Berkeley Psychologist Arthur Jensen. Just how do genes influence the IQ? Only partly by predetermining the ability to learn, says Jencks. Genes also affect the environment in which a child develops, a factor ignored by traditional methods of estimating genetic influences. "If, for example, a nation refuses to send children with...
Jencks, of course, believes that both his assumptions and his conclusions are correct. Other scholars, however, have doubts. Says Berkeley Education Professor James Guthrie: "We are just beginning to learn what questions to ask in education, let alone coming to any conclusions. Moreover, the data on which Jencks bases his conclusions are so frail, so faulty, as not to justify any public policy position." Adds Stanford Education Professor Henry Levin: "We have only the crudest understanding of the actual forces creating differences in people's abilities. It's like analyzing what is beauty. You can study fingernails...
Bacteria are simple, single-cell organisms that lack the nervous systems and brains of higher life forms. Strange as it may seem, however, the little creatures have a rudimentary form of memory, according to two researchers at the Berkeley campus of the University of California. After performing an intriguing series of experiments, the scientists reported to the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society that the common intestinal bacterium Salmonella typhimurium can recall things in its past...
...appalling that university administrator's who defend free speech and open-mindedness to the hilt can so readily employ a double standard when student editors do something which they do not like. The University of California system ran The Daily California at Berkeley off campus for a single editorial it published in 1970; the University of Texas regents went after, and got tighter control over The Daily Texan in 1971 after the paper uncovered $500,000 in funds misappropriate by the regents: last year, Boston College banned The B.C. Heights from its campus on general principle, but also because...
...under 30, believe in the legalization of pot, and sat on the streets of Berkeley before the word hippie was invented. I do not like violence; I do not care for "Saturday Night Specials." But I cannot see myself unarmed and helpless while killers, rapists (my wife was raped) and thugs can get weapons as easily as I can get a Bible...