Ethnic differences in educational attainment

Question 1

External factors for ethnic DEA

Answer 1

Racism in wider society,
Cultural deprivation - Family support and language
Material deprivation - poverty and class

Question 2

Internal factors for ethnic DEA

Answer 2

Teacher labelling, self-fulfilling prophecy, pupil subcultures, the ethnocentric curriculum.

Question 3

2 Sociologists

Answer 3

Tony Sewell - Black boys and anti-school hypermasculine identities.

Question 4

2 Statistics

Answer 4

78% of Chinese pupils get 5 or more A*-C grades 2013.

25% of white pupils in poverty vs 45% of African / Carribean.