From Polemics to Practice

Résumé du livre

IQ testing and curriculum tracking has always provoked controversy and passions. Two periods, the 1920s and 1970s, were periods when this controversy was particularly intense. This study reviews some of the central arguments of Lewis M. Terman, a major proponent of IQ testing and tracking, and his critics like Walter Lippmann, William Bagley, and Alice Keliher, from the twenties. Also, we review Arthur Jensen's provocative hypothesis regarding hereditary intelligence and his critics Richard Lewontin and