Cannot ignore IQ differences in school

Your extensive series on the plight and future of public education in Illinois excludes the discussion of an important aspect.

Could long-established standard IQ differences between the major groups, black, Hispanic, white and Asian, play a role in the educational attainment of each?

Such an inquiry is not popular and would test your newspaper's editorial mettle.

But in the calm and deliberate words of Dr. James D. Watson, one of the foremost geneticists of the age.

"There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so."

A bad diagnosis begets the wrong therapy and inevitably a bad result.

William H. Regnery

Wayne