Examined the role of castelike patterns in British schooling and the participation of teacher mentalities in maintaining images of working class students and their families within urban communities, using qualitative research and demographic data. The common American assumption that race is the most salient designator of resistance to schooling…

School-based mutual support groups (MSGs) are proposed to enhance school involvement of parents from lower socioeconomic and ethnic minority backgrounds. A school-based MSG format is presented with results of a survey of interests from 62 parents (36 respondents and 26 nonrespondents) and a discussion of a pilot demonstration in 3 urban elementary…

Reports on an ethnographic study of a fourth-grade bilingual classroom that examined the culture created in the classroom and how children were socialized to it. The author argues that for culturally diverse, at-risk students to succeed, the culture of the classroom must be different in its roles, values, beliefs, and expectations than what exists…