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He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1954 and was president of the school’s newspaper, the Exonian, as a senior.[1]  After Exeter, he received an A.B. in English literature from Harvard in 1958, followed by a M.Ed. in Harvard Graduate School of Education.  During the year 1960-1961 he studied sociology at the London School of Economics.  He has previously held positions at Northwestern University, the University of Chicago and the University of California at Santa Barbara.[2]His interests are in the study of education, social stratification, social mobility, poverty and the poor. His recent research concerns changes in family structure over the past generation, the costs and benefits of economic inequality, the extent to which economic advantages are inherited and the effects of welfare reform. Prior to his university career, he was an editor at The New Republic from 1961 to 1967 and a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC from 1963 to 1967. He served as an editor of The American Prospect. He has published more than three dozen pieces in The New York Review of Books and The New Republic.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Table of ContentsRichwine controversy[edit]Prizes, awards and honors[edit]Selected bibliography[edit]References[edit]Sources[edit]Richwine controversy[edit]Jencks was part of the dissertation committee at Harvard’s Kennedy School that in 2009 awarded Jason Richwine \u2013 a former member of The Heritage Foundation \u2013 a PhD for his thesis, “IQ and Immigration Policy”. Criticized for the way it linked race to IQ levels, the thesis lost Richwine his job at the Foundation. According to an article in The Nation by journalist and historian Jon Wiener, Jencks was “for decades a leading figure among liberals who did serious research on inequality …” and knew exactly what was “wrong with the studies purporting to link ‘race’ with ‘IQ’.”[3] When Wiener asked if Jencks would comment on issues involving the PhD, he replied, “Nope. But thanks for asking.”[3]Prizes, awards and honors[edit]American Council on Education, co-recipient, Borden Prize for Best Book on Higher Education, 1968American Sociological Association, co-recipient, Best Book in Sociology, 1974Association of American Publishers, Best Book in Sociology and Anthropology, 1994Harry Chapin Media Award, 1995Frank Knox Fellowship, 1960\u201361Guggenheim Fellowship, 1968 and 1982Member, Institute for Advanced Study, 1985\u201386Visiting scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, 1991\u201392Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, 1997\u201398 and 2001\u201302Member of the National Academy of Education.Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesMember of the National Academy of Sciences, 1997.American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2002American Philosophical Society, 2004[4]Doctor of Laws, Kalamazoo College (1969) and Columbia College (1984)Selected bibliography[edit]The Academic Revolution (with David Riesman, 1968, reissued 2001)Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effects of Family and Schooling in America (with seven co-authors, 1972)Who Gets Ahead? (with eleven co-authors, 1979)The Urban Underclass (with Paul Peterson, 1991)Rethinking Social Policy (1992)The Homeless (1994)The Black-White Test Score Gap (with Meredith Phillips, 1998)References[edit]Postman, Neil; Weingartner, Charles (1973), The School Book, Delacorte\/Seymour LawrenceSources[edit]     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki40\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki40\/christopher-jencks-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Christopher Jencks – Wikipedia"}}]}]