After the Coleman report, one had a choice of two positions : one could become an advocate of compensatory education to narrow the achievement gap between groups, or one could adopt the determinist view that the schools can do little to rectify the ills of the wider society.
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"' William Boyd Allison Davis "'( October 14, 1902 & ndash; November 21, 1983 ) was an American educator, anthropologist, writer, researcher, and intelligence quotient in the 1940s and 1950s, and his support of " compensatory education " that contributed to the intellectual genesis of the federal Head Start Program.
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Johnson, formerly of Austin, Texas, has agreed to be interviewed Wednesday on why he's quitting after just over one year as director of compensatory education, more commonly known as the Title I director, in order to become a special assistant to Susan Tave Selman, superintendent of public instruction in Ohio . ( Mollison, Cox News Service)
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Eysenck s quote from Jensen then goes on to explain how on the basis of the apparent failure of compensatory education programs, Jensen concludes that heredity is more important than environment in determining IQ . This is pretty explicit, and it s being presented by a secondary source ( Eysenck s book ) in order to demonstrate what Jensen s opinions are based on.
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His 2001 book, " Title I : Compensatory Education at the Crossroads " ( Borman, Stringfield, & Slavin, 2001 ), discussed the history, student achievement effects, and future of the federal government's largest investment in elementary and secondary education : Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( most recently reauthorized as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 ).
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First, I reviewed some of the evidence and the conclusions of a nationwide survey and evaluation of the large, federally-funded compensatory education programs made by the U . S . Commission on Civil Rights, which concluded that these special programs had produced no significant improvement in the measured intelligence or scholastic performance of the disadvantaged children whose educational achievements these programs were specifically intended to improve.
