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ERIC Number: EJ514042
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0002-4805
Distorted Vision: Education As Seen through "The Bell Curve."
Robitaille, David F.; Robeck, Edward C.
Alberta Journal of Educational Research, v41 n3 p367-76 Sep 1995
"The Bell Curve" claims that most human differences and almost all social injustices can be traced to intelligence, and that distribution of intelligence should influence distribution of educational resources to allow students to find their proper and inevitable place in society. Applied to educational policy, this vision of the world would distort the purposes and practice of education. (SV)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Discrimination, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Homogeneous Grouping, Individual Differences, Intelligence Differences, Social Discrimination, Social Stratification
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Opinion Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Bell Curve (Herrnstein and Murray); Social Justice
Note: Theme issue title: Canadian Perspectives on "The Bell Curve."