The 60 Second Update with

Charles Murray

3. You've said some children will be left behind other children because of the intellectual limitations. Should we do something different to help those children succeed?

The most important change is the one I recommended in answering the first question. Two others are to do a first-rate job of assessing each child’s strengths and needs when they enter elementary school, and adapt their education accordingly, and to stop pressuring high school guidance counselors to encourage everyone to go onto the college-prep track.

 

 

 

Question 4. Holding gifted kids' feet to the fire

 

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Charles Murray is the author of Losing Ground and coauthor, with
Richard Herrnstein, of The Bell Curve. He is the W. H. Brady Scholar
at the American Enterprise Institute.

 

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