The School Achievement of Minority Children

Release on 2020-11-25 | by Ulric Neisser

To be born into a lower caste or castelike minority—a Buraku in Japan or a black in America, for example —is to grow up with the conviction that one's life will eventually be restricted to a small and poorly rewarded set of social roles ...

The School Achievement of Minority Children

Author: Ulric Neisser
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781135877170
Category: Education
Page: 208
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Lower school achievement of minority children is usually explained by projecting "deficits" upon the children -- deficits that are attributed to genetic or environmental causes. In contrast with tradition, the contributors to this book demonstrate how group differences in academic accomplishment and test scores are affected by cultural factors and standard educational practices as well.

Language: en
Pages: 146

Schooling Poor Minority Children

Authors: Martha R. Bireda

Categories: Education

Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-04-16 - Publisher: R&L Education

Schooling Poor Minority Children: New Segregation in the Post-Brown Era explores the 'redesign of school segregation' and explains why resegregation of schools in the post-Brown era is so destructive for poor minority students.

Language: en
Pages: 532

Minority Rules

Authors: David Lublin

Categories: Political Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-11-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Named the American Political Science Association's Best Book on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics for 2014 When we think of minorities--linguistic, ethnic, religious, regional, or racial--in world politics, conflict is often the first thing that comes to mind. Indeed, discord and tension are the depressing norms in many states across the

Language: en
Pages: 147

Muslim Minority Higher Education Institutions in a Northern Indian Province

Authors: Gulnaz Khan

Categories: Education

Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-29 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

This book details an intensive case study of an Indian state that is more or less representative of the Muslim minorities in the country as a whole. The northern Indian province under study has a fair amount of Muslim population with a good number of educational institutions at different levels