The War Against Testing: A Current Status Report

In recent years, the validity of certain types of standardized tests in assessing minority children has been severely criticized." Entire issues of a number of periodicals have already been devoted to the topic of test abuses and misuses.2 CBS Television produced a critical one-hour documentary on the "IQ Myth" in April, 1975. Additional evidence of growing opposition to educational testing abounds in public speeches, legislative hearings, court cases, television documentaries, newspapers, and other media. Ralph Nader recently completed an eight-year investigation into the