Crude and dangerous ideas about the genetic heritability of intelligence, and a supposed biological basis for the Black/White achievement gap, are alive and well inside the education policy process but taking new and more subtle forms. Drawing on Critical Race Theory, the paper analyses recent hereditarian writing, in the UK and the USA, and…

In the winter of 1969, the "Harvard Education Review" published an article by Arthur Jensen that suggested that racial and social class IQ differences were primarily due to hereditary factors. From the point of view of the opposition, this report reviews the controversy that ensued, including Jensen's original statements, the critics'…

The elimination of racial differences depends on education, not on eugenics. (RA)

Summarizes Arthur Jensen's theories on IQ, heritability, and Black intelligence and reviews some responses to Jensen. (JLF)

In this paper, the relation between heritability and sources of group differences is analyzed in terms meaningful to the nonmathematician. (Author)

Rebuttal to Gage's view that the elimination of racial differences depends on education, not on eugenics. (MF)

Discusses the heritability of intelligence. (MF)

From the monthly Saturday Review supplement, "Education in America, sponsored by the Charles F. Kettering Foundation.

A study of mental ability and reading comprehension as a function of sex and race in Trinidad contradicts a large body of North American literature advocating a hereditary-related Black intellectual inferiority. Results suggest that intellectual differences between racial groups in a given society reflect variables associated with racial…

This paper discusses the nature-nurture controversy concerning the origins of mental abilities. Specifically, the author looks at the viewpoint of Arthur Jensen and critically examines his work. This paper presents an overview of Jensen's position followed by a discussion of shortcomings in his methodology and research techniques. The author…