Intelligence Policy

'If anyone is to lead us out of the mire of false premises and hidden agendas about how we gauge each other, it's likely to be Angela Brown-Miller.' from the Foreword by Kenneth S. Norris, University of California at Santa Cruz

• 1. The Bell Tolls.- Specific Objectives.- Definitions and Structure.- I. The Demand for and Assessment of Mental Ability.- 2. The Supply of and Demand for Intelligence.- 3. The Juxtaposition of Individual and Institutional Assessment.- II. Mapping Social Policy Against a Theoretical Backdrop.- 4. Mapping Admissions and Other Social Policy against a Philosophical Backdrop.- 5. Academic Merit versus Fair Representation: A Case Study of the Undergraduate Admissions Policy at the University of California at Berkeley.- 6. Intelligence versus Higher Education as a Determinant of Worldly Success: The Sociopolitical Perspective.- 7. Academic Aptitude versus Achievement: Scientific Interpretations of Intelligence.- 8. Rationalist versus Empiricist Views: The Philosophical Backdrop on the Learnability of Intelligence.- 9. The Illusory Faces of Implicit Intelligence Policy.- III. The Impact of Implicit Intelligence Policy on Explicit Policy.- 10. The Potential Value of Impact Analysis on Intelligence Policy.- 11. The Impact of Implicit Intelligence Policy on Explicit University Admissions Policy.- 12. Recommendations and Conclusions: Toward a Coherent and Explicit Intelligence Policy.- 13. From Here to a Coherent and Explicit Intelligence Policy.- Appendixes.- A. Relevant Models of Impact Analysis.- B. Adaptation of Impact Analysis to Intelligence Policy Analysis.- C. Relevant Documents.- Notes.- About the Author.