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Scarr, Sandra – 1979
The effects of family background on adolescents' IQ, aptitude, and school achievement test scores challenge some of the usual beliefs about the fairness of achievement rather than IQ tests, and the role of genetic differences among individuals and social class groups in academic achievements. Subjects included 115 adoptive families with adolescent…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Adolescents, Adopted Children
Peer reviewedScarr, Sandra – Planning for Higher Education, 1995
Discusses issues considered in the book "The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life" (Richard Herrnstein, Charles Murray), which stresses the importance of genetic differences between individuals and groups. The concept of a cognitive elite, cognitive classes and social behavior, ethnic differences in cognitive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Book Reviews, Educational Policy, Equal Education
