social science 
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SOURCE: National Education Association
3/20/2022
The Racist Beginnings of Standardized Testing
Standardized testing originated when public schooling was expanding and eugenicists were arguing that many immigrant and nonwhite groups were not capable of educational achievement. Tests were developed to sustain this viewpoint.
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SOURCE: New York Times
9/11/2020
James Jackson, Who Changed the Study of Black America, Dies at 76
James S. Jackson pioneered survey methods that allowed African Americans to be studied as a group rather than in comparison to a baseline defined by whites.
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8/9/2020
Let's Return Historical Attention to the Crowd
by Peter N. Stearns
Historians have much to add to the social science theory on crowds and can help advance understanding past simplistic and mechanistic understandings of today's public unrest.
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SOURCE: New York Times
4/6/2020
How Racism Is Destroying America (Book Review)
by Michael Ignatieff
A white liberal progressive confronts the issue of race in America with beliefs that make it difficult to face a reality that their fellow citizens of black or Hispanic origin take for granted.
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SOURCE: Harvard Gazette
3-2-15
Dutch sociologist says that what is new about mass killing is that we’re embarrassed by it
University of Amsterdam Professor of Social Science Emeritus Abram de Swaan takes a hard look at the subject in his new book, “The Killing Compartments: The Mentality of Mass Murder.”
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