ABSTRACT
Historically, the tenets forming the White Racial Frame are the cloth that shades eyes to the monstrosity of slavery, the injustice of Jim Crow, and the systemic racism that still plagues the United States and the world beyond. At first glance, the core tenets of the White Racial Frame and the systemic racism it enables may seem unrelated to educational measurement. The apparatus of racism are now so deeply rooted in our social-political-economic system that systemic racism operates on its own. The broad definition of educational measurement permits the historical developments that influence practices employed today to include both the development of mental measures and educational tests, and the development and applications of statistical methods used to analyze scores produced by tests and other measurement instruments. The chapter also presents an overview on the key concepts discussed in this book.
