ABSTRACT
This chapter begins the international review of deficit thinking of 16 countries. The chapter is framed around the following parts: (a) conquest and colonization of the United States; (b) ethnic demographic profile; (c) TAG; (d) manifestations of deficit thinking in educational thought and practice. This latter discussion, the core of the chapter, covers these deficit thinking themes in the United States: (a) neohereditarianism; (b) teacher education; (c) teachers; (d) administrators; (e) parents.
