Stephen Tartrom, a professor of the history and author of Harvard University, is an author with his wife, Abigail Tartrom, who focused on the famous people of the people as a major critic of positive behavior. He died in Arlington, Virginia.
His daughter, Melanie Tartrom, said that his death in a care facility was due to complications of dementia.
Professor Serstrom and his wife were one of the earliest, most loud, most prudent critics when policies were sustained from the right in the 1980s and 1990s. In his opinions, magazine articles, and books, they argued that the left has accepted the racial pessimism to seek right imbalance through allocation. I prefer than educational reforms that are more difficult.
“If double standards are needed at the time of entry, should there be double standards for specialized certification tests such as grade, graduation requirements, and bar exams?” I asked in an interview with INQUIRER.
He was a socially popular historian who was already highly valued when he noticed that he was at the center of the so -called political positive war in the late 1980s and early 1990s in the 1980s and early 1990s.
According to Harvard Crimson's article, one student group of his course has commented in classes, such as reading from the magazine of the White Plantation owner. An external commentator picked up the story and used it as an example of political correctness, and the scandal was swirling.
Professor THERNSTRM has criticized the university that he has stopped teaching the course and is not doing enough to support him. He repeated these claims to his conservative critic Dinesh D'Souza for his book “Illiveral Education” (1991).
The incident made him a beloved person of anti -PC rights. He and his wife began writing for commentary and conservative publications such as commentary and public interests.
THERNSTROMS's 1997 book, “The Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible,” was a conservative criticism stone in the late 1990s and conservative criticisms for higher education.
They followed the book in “no excuse: closing racial gaps in learning” (2003). They proposed ideas, such as using vouchers and raising educational standards to improve racial minorities.
Many of their debate became intelligent fuel for social and educational reform promoted by the George W. Bush administration.
“The structure of U.S. urban education is a fortress for basic reforms,” ​​said Tatterh in Bostongrove in 2003. Do well in your life. “
Professor THERNSTROM's early work has a problem with the concept of the concept of American dreams as a ragged story. His great research showed that raising a ladder in the economy was much more difficult than most people believed, but in fact some ethnic groups are more than other ethnic groups. It was shown that climbing fast, and that it actually happened gradually and unevenly.
Certainly, he thought he was an American dream avatar.
Stefan Albert Tartrom was born on November 5, 1934 in Port Huron, Michigan, and grew up in a battle creek where his father, Albert, was working on the railway. His mother, Bernadine (Robins), managed the house.
He is superior to school, especially in the discussion, and has gained a scholarship to learn speech at the Northwestern University. He graduated from the top honor in 1956.
Later, he studied history at Harvard University under Oscar handlin. The history of Oscar handlin focuses on innovative tasks on the impact of immigration on American history and scholarships of “from zero”. He got a Ph.D. in 1964.
As a student, Professor Thernstrom has identified the left firmly. In 1959, he met Abigail Man in a lecture by an advanced journalist. They got married two months later.
Abigail Tartrom died in 83 in 2020. With his daughter, Professor Zhanstrom survived by his son Samuel and his four grandchildren.
Professor Tarstrom's paper on the newberry port of Newberry Port, Massachusetz, became his first book, “Poverty and Advance: 19th Century Cities” (1964). We won the Bankloft Award, the best honor for writing history.
His book and his next Boston: Poverty and Progress of the American big cities, 1880-1970 (1973) depicting a pile of raw census and over time. It represented the change in between. The approach to history, including the stack format that runs the IBM punch card stack on the main frame computer, was a pioneer at the time.
“I wanted to test Horatish Argar's mythology,” said Professor Turom in Boston Glove in 1981. “Not based on Andrew Carnegie.”
He taught at Harvard University, and at Harvard University and University of Los Angeles, California before returning to Harvard University in 1974. He stayed there in 2008 until he was honored.
He started his career on the left, but by the 1980s, Professor Tarstrom was a new conservatives, and said he had undergone the civil rights achievement in the 1950s and 1950s, like intellectual brothers. He criticized many liberals by abandoning the principles of equality of coloritis. 60s.
“It's absolutely ideal to me. You acknowledge people without mentioning their race,” he told the New York Times in 1998. The difference is the 1963 radical idea, and now a so -called conservative idea. “
