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In 1971, educational researchers decided to take action. Under the auspices of John Hopkins psychologist, started up the Center for Talented Youth (CTY), an organization aimed at identifying mathematically gifted students. Since then, Duke, Northwestern. Arizona State, and the University of Denver have organized talent searches modeled after the CTY...
The likelihood of youngsters emerging socially maladjusted as a result of such acceleration is uncertain. One participant who received his bachelors' degree from Johns Hopkins at 18 and is currently a professor at Northwestern told The Washington Post he experienced no real difficulties adjusting. Yet even if such programs are...
In other business, the council passed a non-binding resolution placing a 90-day moratorium on all testing of nerve gas and blistering agents within city limits. City officials have expressed concern over such testing getting out of hand ever since last fall, when the Arthur D. Little Company opened...
Yet others see pluralism and internal struggle as a good thing. Some, following the footsteps of those several years ago who called for "normalization" (the emergence of Israel as a normal state with standard modern features), see pluralism as a shared chracteristic with the liberal West. Some offer additional justifications...
Now, Lieber and Baumgartner are not especially afraid of anything, but then again, neither seems in any hurry to change the slavish life most people in the West are forced to settle for. Let us perform a single thought experiment. If Errol Louis had been born in the Eastern bloc...