Echoes of a forgotten past: Eugenics, testing, and education reform

The Educational Forum | January 1, 2002| | Copyright

The children of today must be viewed as the raw material of a new State; the school as teh nursery of the nation.

-Ernest Bryant Hoag and Lewis M. Terman (1914)

The metaphors employed by educational psychologist Lewis Terman formed part of a eugenic ideology that guided educational reform in the early 20th century. Echoes from this past can also be heard in today's calls for more high-stakes testing. An investigation of the role eugenics played in the history of testing is more than an arcane study of a forgotten chapter in U.S. education. It raises fundamental questions about where today's ...

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