Was there a difference between intelligence and achievement tests 80 years ago?
Today’s passage touched briefly on the overlapping development of intelligence and achievement tests early in the 20th century. Most of the historiography has focused on so-called IQ tests, their flaws, and their political uses. But at the same time that school districts were purchasing millions of IQ tests, they were also purchasing millions of the […]
Willard Daggett, demotivational speaker
Last Monday, the teachers in Hillsborough County had to suffer through a bus ride downtown and stuffing themselves in our portside arena to hear Willard Daggett, most well known for … well, for talking and making lots of money talking about whatever strikes his fancy. From one friend in the system who e-mailed me: He […]