Alfred Binet created the first IQ test to identify students needing educational help. Binet’s IQ test led to the concept of mental age, comparing a child’s intelligence to the average of their peers.

In “Not Every Child Is Secretly a Genius” (The Chronicle Review, online edition, June 14), Christopher Ferguson, an associate professor of behavioral and applied sciences at Texas A&M International ...

We’ve moved past IQ. But have we moved past labeling? In classrooms, staff meetings, and lesson plans, teachers no longer talk much about IQ scores. Instead, many now invoke “interpersonal ...