Explaining School Failure, Producing School Success: Two Cases

Abstract

Which explanation of the school performance of minority children is most useful and appropriate depends on why one is asking the question. The authors discuss two efforts to produce school success in place of school failure, based on the assumption that specific cultural differences underlie school failure and that producing particular cultural compatibilities in the classroom was a key to school success. MINORITY SCHOOL PERFORMANCE, NAVAJO, NATIVE HAWAIIANS, EDUCATIONAL CHANGES, CULTURAL DIFFERENCES