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 Latinoas and anyone who did not fit with the pseudoscientifically established superior Nordic race. Education leaders complaining of children of wormeaten 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.