This book includes nine essays. In the Introduction: "The Lingering Infatuation with IQ," the editors argue that since the IQ test has again risen as an instrument of conservative policy, the test and the arguments built around it must be reexamined. Noam Chomsky criticizes the well-known "Atlantic" article, "IQ" (September, 1971), in "The Fallacy…

Included are articles on the Education Professions Development Act, an inside perspective (Don Davies); paraprofessionals in education for handicapped children (Mary-Beth Fafard, Musette El-Mohammed, Alan Gartner, Gina Schuster); paraprofessionals in preschool program, especially Project Head Start (A. Carla Drije); the paraprofessional in follow…