Intelligence Policy: Its Impact on College Admissions and Other Social Policies (Environment, Development and Public Policy: Public Policy and Social Services)

The author, educator, social policy analyst, clinician, researcher, and professor, Dr. Angela Browne-Miller, examines on the pages of her unique book, the numerous facets of what she calls "implicit intelligence policies" -- those unspoken directives (and assumptions) that often profoundly influence social and educational policies and those affected by these policies.  She delves into the specific impacts of such policies and assumptions on programs addressing what is presumed to be measured and actual "mental ability." This author contends that mental ability is largely flexible, that environmental and educational actions/activities can powerfully affect the expression of individuals' mental abilities. Dr. Browne-Miller is certain that the massively untapped human potential is there, waiting to be expressed. Additionally, the author develops new measures for detailing impacts of such policies, and a new framework for seeing the evolution of our understandings of human intelligence itself.See also the electronic form of this book newly published by Springer. And see DrAngela.com for more information on this author.