Card 44 - Ethnicity Differential Attainment: External Factors: Cultural Deprivation

Question 1

What do Bereiter and Engelmann suggest?

Answer 1

• The language used by low-income black American families as inadequate for educational success.
• See it as ungrammatical, disjointed and incapable of expressing abstract ideas.

Question 2

What causes Afro-Caribbean underachievement according to Scruton?

Answer 2

• Their failure to embrace mainstream British culture.