Education today is very important for nations around the world. We change to perfect the system and try to compete for the perfect education system. Our students and children witness more and more traumatic events than in the past and suffer more even at a young age. Let's look at our education system and try to identify its main causes. Many studies have been conducted to improve our education. Many have learned that due to the ease of information about traumatic events worldwide and individual events, trauma is the culprit and holds our students back, causing them to suffer academically and lowering our students' IQs. While issues of classroom intervention and trauma may seem unwanted, Morrison's The Bluest Eye and much of the critical theory related to it suggests a deeper connection, showing us that intervention is needed in the classroom. The article “The Effects of Trauma Types, Cumulative Trauma, and PTSD on IQ in Two Groups of Highly Traumatized Adolescents” describes the correlation between trauma type, PTSD, and IQ. The hypothesis of this study was that different types of trauma have different influences. This article delves into the correlation between traumatic type, post-traumatic stress disorder and IQ. The study consisted of 390 African American adolescents and Iraqi refugee adolescents. The thesis of this study was “that different types of trauma have different influences, some positive and some negative” (128). The study concluded that higher IQ levels may serve as a "premorbid protective" factor or that verbal IQ may be negatively affected by PTSD symptoms. Performance on standardized memory tests was found to be severely impaired. This was especially true for children who had… half the paper… available to students to deal with and move forward with their lives and unlock their full potential. Works Cited Bradley D. Stein, et al. “Going Large: Experiences of Implementing a School Trauma Intervention.” School Psychology Review 40.4 (2011): 549-568. Premier of academic research. Network. April 24, 2012. Lisa Chiodo, et al. “The effects of trauma types, cumulative trauma, and posttraumatic stress disorder on IQ in two groups of highly traumatized adolescents.” Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy 4.1 (2012): 128-139. PsycARTICLES. Network. April 24, 2012.Herman, Judith Lewis. “Terror, disconnection.” Trauma and recovery. New York, NY: BasicBooks, 1992. 31-72. Print.Morrison, Toni. The bluest eye. New York: Plume Book, 1994. Print. Speight, Suzette. “Internalized racism: Another piece of the puzzle.” The Counseling Psychologist 35.1 (2007): 126-134. Press.