Guadalupe Valdes and Richard Figueroa carefully and clearly craft an argument for whybilingualism and testing constitute a special case of bias that continues to have seriousconsequences for today's school-age minority population in the United States. Thisargument could not be more timely, given the drive in the United States for standards and arising wave of state-mandated standardized testing programs for all students, includingbilinguals. Perhaps a summary of this book should be on the desk of every educational leader andpolicymaker charged with the mandate of administering standardized tests to bilingual studentsand comparing their scores with those of monolingual groups for the purpose of specialeducation and vocational placements.