Goddard's Binet results indicated fifteen thousand feeble-minded children in the New York City public schools¶
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q2 i? The review reports, citing Goddard's 1913 report on ungraded classes, that Binet results indicated fifteen thousand feeble-minded children in the New York City public schools. → Kohs 1914
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Kohs 1914¶
Kohs, S. C. (1914). The Binet-Simon Measuring Scale for Intelligence: An Annotated Bibliography. Part II. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Binet-Simon+Measuring+Scale+for+Intelligence%22+Kohs+annotated+bibliography
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The review attributes to Goddard's 1913 Hanus Investigating Commission report the estimate that 'fifteen thousand feeble-minded children' were in the New York City public schools, with recommendations following; no per-child statistics are printed.
"The Biiiet results indicate that there are fifteen thousand feeble-minded children in the New York City public schools."
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Related Claims¶
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