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ED269500 UD024835
Title: The School Achievement of Minority Children. New Perspectives.
Author(s): Neisser, Ulric, Ed.
Pages: 207
Publication Date: 1986
ISBN: 0-89859-685-8
Available from: Document Not Available from EDRS.
Availability: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Suite 102, 365 Broadway, Hillsdale, NJ 07642 ($19.95).
Language: English
Document Type: Book (010); Collected works--General (020); Reports--Descriptive (141)
Geographic Source: U.S.; New Jersey
Journal Announcement: RIESEP1986
Most of the
chapters in this book grew out of the Conference on the Academic
Performance of Minority Children held at Cornell University in 1982.
Six hypotheses about minority school achievement are presented.
After a general introduction by Ulric Neisser, John Ogbu describes
the effects of caste and argues that black school children are preparing
themselves for the roles they expect to play later on. A. Wade Boykin
discusses black culture and argues that schools are structured to
maintain the hegemony of the white middle class. Ron Edmonds documents
the principal differences between effective and ineffective schools.
Brown, Palincsar, and Purcell examine the differential treatment
effect in reading instruction and describe new participatory teaching
techniques that may reduce achievement gaps between successful and
unsuccessful students. Reginald Gougis argues that black students
suffer stress from racial prejudice that has negative effects on
learning. In the final two chapters, Richard Darlington presents
findings on the effectiveness of Head Start programs and Herbert
Ginsburg reviews cross-cultural and subcultural research, concluding
that basic abilities for school subjects are equally present in
every cultural group. (CG)
Descriptors:
*Academic Achievement; *Blacks; *Cognitive Ability; Cross Cultural
Studies; Elementary Secondary Education; Intelligence Differences;
Intelligence Tests;
*Minority Groups; Preschool Education; *Racial Bias; Reading Instruction;
School Effectiveness; *Social Stratification; Teaching Methods
