Harvard

Educational
Review

LONGFELLOW HALL, 13 APPIAN WAY
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 02138

December 20, 1968

Professor Joshua Lederberg
Department of Genetics
School of Medicine
Stanford University

Palo Alto, California

Dear Dr. Lederberg:

The Harvard Educational Review is pianning a discussion -
of the concept of intelligence to be published in its Spring
1969 Issue. The focus for the discussion will be the enclosed
article by Dr. Arthur Jensen (to be published in our forth-
coming Winter Issue), which presents his views about the nature
of intelligence and the extent to which it is modifiable.

We have assembled a group of respondents from diverse
backgrounds to comment on_the Jensen article. Thus #ar, Drs.
card pe eiter, Jerome Kadan, David Elkind, Lee Cronbach and
J. MCV. Hunt have agreed to respond. A. Hess ).

We invite you to participate as a respondent in this dis-
cussion. In view of Dr. Jensen's contentions concerning genetic
influences on intelligence, the comments of a geneticist would
add an important dimension not now present.

Responses should be approximately 8-12 typewritten pages
in length. Our submission date for the Spring Issue is
February 1.

One of our editors will contact you in a few days to see
whether it will be possible for you to contribute to this dis-
cussion, which we hope will be an important contribution both
to education and to the study of human development.

Sincerely,

O)enald Bo Mon

Donald R. Moore
Co-Chairman, Editorial Board

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