The Achievement Gap
IQ tests and standardized tests used in schools were designed to identify students that could excel in the hard sciences, the tests used in American schools are not much different than the original Stanford-Binet IQ test that was first used to access school children over 100 years ago. Due to racist politics in America IQ tests get a bad rap, but IQ tests and standardized tests in schools have been and always will be nothing more than a way to assess students so that schools can identify gifted students and either give them accelerated curriculum or track them into advanced placement classes. But instead, IQ tests and standardized school tests are used to identify the children that are performing below average, and there has been an attempt over the last 50 years or more to, “close the achievement gap,” between the students that perform below average and the students with average achievement scores, and traditionally only the top 3% of all students are selected for...