African-American Educators and IQ Testing in the 1920,s and '30's
By Alan Stoskopf
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It was not until I was long out of school and indeed after the (first)World War that there came the hurried use of the new technique of psychological[IQ] tests, which were quickly adjusted so as to put black folk absolutely beyond the possibility of civilization.
-- W. E. B. Du Bois, 1940 1
The words of W. E. B. Du Bois still haunt us. We are now experiencing another onslaught and "hurried use" of tests in our schools. How African-American educators fought against their uses in the past has important implications for today's resistance to "high-stakes" testing.
We have grown accustomed to the constant refrain of schools needing to institute "world class standards" and be held accountable through externally based,......

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