The weekly UPI Almanac package for July 3-9, 2006. Alfred Binet (July 8, 1857 – October 18, 1911), French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test, the basis of today's IQ test.

Mental testers define an individual’s intelligence in many ways, usually as “the capacity for abstracting” or “the ability to meet new situations.” One thing on which most agree, however, is that its ...

In the early 1900s, the French government passed a new law, which would require all children to attend school. Naturally, some children would need more specialized assistance and care than others. And ...