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Empowering Minority Students, July 1987. Teacher Training Monograph Number 5. Teacher Training Project for Bilingual & English to Speakers of Other Languages Teachers.
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Cummins, Jim – 1987
The observations of educators and educational research have shown that academic outcomes for minority groups exposed to the same educational programs are different. The phenomenon does not seem to be due to superior intelligence, social class, or length of time in the country. Documented since the mid-1960s, this should be taken into account when…
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