UNTESTING, TESTING. In 1986, as a result of a lawsuit filed mostly by black parents, California banned the use of I.Q. tests to measure learning disabilities in black students on the grounds that they tended to be racially discriminatory. The upshot would have seemed quirky even in South Africa: the tests were permitted for all kids except blacks. One mother of a mixed-race son was told that he could not be tested because he was registered as a black; she was advised to reregister him as Hispanic. Now a suit to restore the tests has been filed by another set of...
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