Language spoken for by Low-Income Black American families is inadequate for educational success. It is ungrammatical, disjointed and incapable of expressing abstract ideas.
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Bowker
Black American families lack of standard English is a major barrier to success.
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Gillborn & Mirza
Indian pupils still do well despite not having English as their home language.
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Moynihan
Black families are headed by lone women, meaning that the family struggles as they don't have a male breadwinner and boys lack an adequate role model.
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Murray
High rate of lone parents and lack of male role models results in underachievement.
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Pryce
Asians are high achievers as they are more resistant to racism, whilst Black Caribbean are less resistant to racism, meaning they have low self-esteem and underachieve.
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Driver and Ballard
Asian family structures bring educational benefits as they are positive towards education, and have higher aspirations for their children.
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Lupton
Asian children are respectful towards adults.
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Khan
Asian families are 'stress-ridden', with a controlling attitude towards children.
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Lupton
Teachers reported poorer levels of behaviour and discipline in white, Working Class schools. Teachers blamed this behaviour on the negative attitude that these parents have towards education.
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Rex
Racial Discrimination leads to social exclusion and worsens poverty as they are forced to live in substandard accommodation.
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Noon
Sent out applications of 'Evans' and 'Patel' to 100 top UK companies. The companies were more encouraging to the 'White' candidate.
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Black American families lack of standard English is a major barrier to success.
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