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ERIC Number: EJ417480
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1990
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ISSN: ISSN-1046-6193
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A Theory of Success and Failure.
Hill, David
Teacher Magazine, v1 n9 p40-45 Jun-Jul 1990
The work of anthropologist John Ogbu regarding success and failure in the education of minority students is detailed. Ogbu focuses on why some minorities are successful in school while others are not despite similar cultural, language, and poverty barriers. He believes in critically important differences between immigrant and nonimmigrant minorities. (SM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Access to Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Low Achievement, Lower Class Students, Minority Groups, Racial Discrimination, Success
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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