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050 00 $aBF431.5.U6$bI87 1994
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100 1 $aItzkoff, Seymour W.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50029393
245 14 $aThe decline of intelligence in America :$ba strategy for national renewal /$cSeymour W. Itzkoff.
260 $aWestport, Conn. :$bPraeger,$c1994.
263 $a9401
300 $aviii, 242 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPt. I. Decline. 1. Introduction: Truth and National Survival. 2. Nations, Powerful and Wealthy. 3. America's Greatness. 4. Economics: Is the Sleeper a Giant? 5. Our Educational Wreckage. 6. The Social Bond Unravels. 7. Ebb Tide. 8. The Free Market of High Intelligence. 9. The Tragedy of Low Intelligence -- Pt. II. Renewal. 10. Defensive Driving. 11. The American Family. 12. A Non-Hyphenated People: W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963). 13. Immigration: Hot War. 14. Disestablishing State Schooling. 15. Middle-Class Economics and the Social Contract. 16. Natality: World War III.
520 $aFew doubt that the United States has slipped from its longstanding eminence as the world's wealthiest and most productive nation. The problem for the past thirty years has been the diagnosis of both the decline and then the cure. Literally trillions of dollars have been expended in futile programs to staunch the hemorrhaging of our economic wealth, jobs, educational achievement, and cultural elan.
520 8 $aItzkoff argues that we will never stop the fall until we understand our real national dilemma. This is the decline in our national intelligence profile: fewer citizens of high intelligence, educational potential, and economic productivity. These ideas are taboo. Itzkoff, however, insists that these are the facts, and they must be examined.
520 8 $aIn this book, he lays out the available evidence for our social disintegration and suggests a rational program of policy initiatives that would begin to restore us to what we were as recently as 1955 - the great hope of the world.
650 0 $aIntelligence levels$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aIntellect$zUnited States$xGenetic aspects$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xIntellectual life$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140367
852 00 $boff,leh$hBF431.5.U6$iI87 1994