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Article: IQ and education reform.(correspondence)(Brief article)
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- Education Next
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- January 1, 2008
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It is a rare treat to read an article ("The Odd Couple," check the facts, Fall 2007) that calls me a crank but nonetheless gives a fair statement of my position. Two quick points to highlight how Jay Greene and I might pursue our disagreements empirically: Professor Greene cites education reforms that have produced gains of about a third of a standard deviation. I accept that evidence. But in response I would cite the extensive evidence that pretest--post-test changes shrink to a fraction of their initial size within a few years (see chapter 17 of The Bell Curve). Then I would argue that even the initial gains do not challenge my thesis about the limits that cognitive ...