The<b> Second Edition</b> of this classic work has been thoroughly updated and revised with an additional chapter providing a powerful rebuttal to <b>The Bell Curve</b><i>. </i>Ronald J Samuda presents a comprehensive analysis of the perspectives pitfalls fallacies issues consequences and trends in the use of standardized norm-referenced tests with American minorities. He demonstrates that testing continues to be the primary method for injecting pseudoscientific arguments which bolster discrimination prejudice and social injustice.