Gillborn, Ethnicity and Policy

Question 1

Aim of the gifted and talented programme

Answer 1

Meeting the needs of more able pupils in inner city schools

Question 2

Gillborn’s criticism of the gifted and talented programme

Answer 2

Allow it aims to help minorities, whites are more than twice as likely than Black Caribbeans to be identified as gifted and talented

Question 3

Aim of the aiming high initiative

Answer 3

Raise Black Caribbean pupils’ achievement

Question 4

Tikly et al’s criticism of the aiming high initiative

Answer 4

Although it aims to raise Black achievement, blacks were more likely to be entered for lower tiers for GCSEs

Question 5

Strand’s analysis of data from the LSYPE- findings of research

Answer 5

Black students were systematically underrepresented in entry to hier tiers. Possibly due to low expectations from teachers

Question 6

What is new IQ ism?

Answer 6

Policymakers/ teachers make false assumptions about the nature of pupils ability based IQ tests

Question 7

Gillborn’s main finding

Answer 7

The education system is institutionally racist, creating an environment in which ethnic minorities are routinely disadvantaged

Question 8

Sewell’s criticism of Gillborn

Answer 8

Sewell argues that although schools are still racist, this alone is not powerful enough to cause underachievement. Instead, external factors like the role of the father are more important.

Question 9

Critics of the view that the education system is institutionally racist argue that……

Answer 9

The overachievement of Chinese and Indian students brings this idea into question.