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ERIC Number: EJ211890
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1979
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Chicanos, Intelligence Testing, and the Quality of Life.
Aguirre, Adalberto, Jr.
Educational Research Quarterly, v4 n1 p3-12 Spr 1979
It is asserted that intelligence testing is part of a national educational ideology which is used to rationalize Chicanos' educational inequalities. This rationale suggests that inequality is the result of the group's inability to function competently within the American social and educational structures. (MH)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Educational Benefits, Educational Philosophy, Equal Education, Failure, Intelligence Differences, Intelligence Tests, Mexican Americans, Nature Nurture Controversy, Quality of Life, Racial Discrimination, Social Problems, Testing Problems
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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