Democracy, meritocracy, and the cognitive elite: The real thesis of the bell curve

Educational Theory

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 425-431

  Kaplan, Laura Duhan ^a   Kaplan, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

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EID: 18844390414     PISSN: 00132004     EISSN: 17415446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-5446.1997.00425.x     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. John Dewey, Democracy and Education (New York: Macmillan, 1916).
2. Christopher Lasch, The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy (New York: WAV. Norton, 1995), 19.
3. See also Mickey Kaus, The End of Equality (New York: Basic Books, 1992).
4. Lasch, The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy and Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Stracture in American Life (New York: The Free Press, 1994). These books will be referred to as RE and BC, respectively with page numbcis in the text for all subsequent citations.
5. "I.Q.: Is it Destiny Newsweek 124 (24 October 1994): 52-62
6. See, for example, Russell Jacoby and Naomi Glauberman, The Bell Curve Debate: History, Ideas, Opinions. (New York: Times Books, 1995). To a lesser extent, this criticism is also true of some of the essays in Steven Fraser, ed., The Bell Curve Wars: Race, Intelligence and the Future of America (New York: Basic Books, 1995).
7. For an account of the life of the underclass that deeply moves a reader to action, see Jonathan Kozol, Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation (New York: Harper, 1995).