Now, in my view, Arthur R. Jensen of Berkeley focused with laser-like focus on IQ test scores.
In turn, I focused with laser-like focus on Jensen's work, although I did read related works about IQ.
There can be no doubt that certain kinds of year-long instruction can help students raise their IQ test scores. That has been established more than once.
But then "backsliding" (i.e., sliding back on IQ test scores) sets in.
So certain kinds of intensive instruction (immersion instruction) need to be used over a period of years.
As I say, Cosand, with the complete cooperation of the elected Board of Trustees, established a national showcase program that had the second highest cost per student on campus -- second only to the nursing program in cost per student.
As I say, faculty from new community colleges around the country visited that national showcase program.
That national showcase program was counselor-heavy. Alice M. Thelen did a number of studies of the program that may still be available at the ERIC database. She also did her doctoral dissertation at the University of Wisconsin on the program, focusing on the counseling dimension of the program.
William Moore, Jr., also published a book about the program, Against the Odds (Jossey-Bass, 1972).
If you would like to learn more about the late Gary Simpkins' work, which I mention in my op-ed piece "SOS to American Politicians: Save Our Schools!" you should contact the African American linguist John Rickford at Stanford University.
Perhaps you could enlist Professor Rickford's services to help set up a national showcase multi-year program in Oakland, California, based on Gary Simpkins' work. Professor Rickford might be willing to help set up a national showcase multi-year program in Oakland.
If I'm not mistaken, one national showcase multi-year program using Gary Simpkins' work should do the trick, provided that it is effective and adequately publicized.
Best wishes for your work as Governor of California.
Respectfully,
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