Education in America was designed to organize classify and sort students according to a
definition of ability and human worth provided by a racialized scientism known as eugenics - an
ideology whose ultimate goal was the establishment of a superior White race. Eugenicists
targeted entire ethnic groups the urban poor rural White trash the sexually deviant Blacks
Jews Native Americans Asians Latino as and anyone who did not fit with the
pseudo-scientifically established superior Nordic race. Education leaders complaining of
children of worm-eaten stock established an enduring system to organize and sort students
according to perceived societal worth. In exposing and addressing eugenics' place in our
educational system this book provides a groundbreaking addition to and exceptional correction
of the history of curriculum in America.
