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Social Contexts for Ethnic Borders and School Failure

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McDermott, R. P.
Gospodinoff, Kenneth

1981

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Grade Level(s): 9, 10, 11, 12

Theme(s): Exploring Horizons

Excerpt:
"This paper considers the recently popular claim that many minority children fail in school because there is a mismatch between their procedures or codes for making sense with each other and the codes used by their teachers who generally come from a socially more powerful group."

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