A funny thing happened on the way to a school renaming: A respected and beloved Silicon Valley pioneer, with no connection to racism or eugenics, is now unfairly and wrongly associated with both. All ...

Palo Alto school board set to strip schools of eugenicists’ names Palo Alto: Book report spurs effort to rename Jordan Middle School Palo Alto committee backs Jordan, Terman school rename Stanford ...

Palo Alto: Book report spurs effort to rename Jordan Middle School Palo Alto debates whether Jordan school should keep its eugenicist name Palo Alto school board told that renaming Jordan is ...

ONE does not pay for genius in the coin of frustration or unhappiness; Dr. Lewis Terman proves conclusively that 1418 gifted adults — the famous Terman children of twenty-five years ago — are taller, ...

In the early part of the 20th century, psychologist Lewis Terman set out to dispel the "early ripe-early rot myth." Terman believed that knowing a person's IQ was all that was necessary to predict his ...

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