The Harvard Hall Pass

Well, I'm not sure why you aren't somewhat encouraged that some people can say such things in Academia. (And, in fact, Murray and Hernstein already have... at Harvard, no less.)

More recently, David Armor has demonstrated that early childhood development explains a lot more of the gap than genetics. In other words, the problem concerns things like the divorce rate and single parenthood, that deprive children of critical development in the first few years of life. Fryer's greatest fortune was probably the fact that his parents stayed together until he wa past the critical formative period and he also got critical nurturing care from his grandmother.

Posted by Demosophist at March 21, 2005 7:53 AM