Ethnicity And Achievment

Question 1

What is ethnicity

Answer 1

People who share common history, customs and identity

Question 2

What are Chinese students more likely to achieve

Answer 2

A* to C grades at GCSE

Question 3

What percentage of black students achieve A* to C in English and a maths

Answer 3

59%

Question 4

Free school meals

Answer 4

All ethnic minorities with free school meals outperform white British with free school meals

Question 5

Sewell

Answer 5

Black male, immediate gratification learning seen as ‘white

Question 6

Chinese parents place a high value in education

Answer 6

Archer and Francis

Question 7

Sewell (1997)

Answer 7

Black students raised by single parents lack love and discipline, attracted to macho and masculine goings

Question 8

Murray

Answer 8

Afro- Caribbean, lack of male role models, struggle to socialise

Question 9

Languages have little impact academically

Answer 9

The swan report

Question 10

Noon

Answer 10

Sent identical letters to top UK schools with names Evan and Patel
- the replies to Evans were more helpful

Question 11

National curriculum is ‘specifically British’

Answer 11

Troyna and Williams

Question 12

‘Little Englandism’

Answer 12

Ball

Question 13

Institutional racism

Answer 13

Occurs as a result of inbuilt discrimination within formal institutions

Question 14

Crozier

Answer 14

Bangladeshi and Pakistani students feel excluded from their peers

Question 15

Selection of segregation

Answer 15

Gilborn- marketisation of education disadvantaged ethnic minorities

Question 16

Mc Robbie

Answer 16

70s magazines like Jackie emphasise on marriage

Question 17

Rutter

Answer 17

Children spend so long at school they can’t make a difference between success and failure of student

Question 18

Interactionism

Answer 18

Social process - result of human interaction

Question 19

Gilborn and Youdell

Answer 19

Teachers had radicalised expectations- quick to discipline black pupils
- reinforces stereotypes, creates conflict

Question 20

Fuller

Answer 20

Rejection didn’t conform to all values, valued success enough to push themselves

Question 21

The colour blind

Answer 21

Allows racism to go un challenged

Question 22

The overt racist

Answer 22

Black pupils are inferior - actively discriminate

Question 23

The liberal

Answer 23

Low expectations for black pupils as they are ‘culturally deprived’

Question 24

The black report 1980

Answer 24

Reach policy recommendations for reducing inequality

Question 25

Labour 1977

Answer 25

Free school meals for all children