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The Forgotten History of Eugenics
High-stakes testing has its origins in the eugenics movements and racist assumptions about IQ. We forget, at our own peril, that this legacy hangs over current demands for increased testing
Stephen Selden, Inheriting Shame: The Story of Eugenics in America (New York: Teachers College Press, 1999).
Russell Jacoby and Naomi Glauberman, ed. The Bell Curve Debate: History, Documents, Opinions, (New York: Times Books, Random House, 1995), chapters 6-8.
Alan Stoskopf, et al, Confronting the Forgotten History of the American Eugenics Movement (forthcoming from Harvard/Facing History Project, Fall 1999).
Footnotes
1. Francis Galton, Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development (London: Macmillan, 1883), frontispiece.
2. Steven Selden, “Conservative Ideology and Curriculum,” Educational Theory 3 (Summer 1977), p. 218.</p
