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ERIC Number: EJ190443
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1978
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The Current Social Climate and Its Effect on Excellence.
Jones, Faustine C.
Phi Delta Kappan, v60 n3 p217S-18S Nov 1978, Nov78
Neoconservative intellectuals have reopened the genetic inferiority theories, contended that the poor are responsible for their own condition, propounded the idea that governmental and institutional intervention in individual affairs makes no substantial difference, and advocated a pseudo-meritocracy. The best response is a community development model. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Blacks, Elementary Secondary Education, Social Environment
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Language: English
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