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Mickelson, Roslyn Arlin – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1993
Reviews by Margaret A. Gibson (1988) and by Margaret A. Gibson and John U. Ogbu, Eds. (1991). These two books contribute significantly to theories of minority school success and failure in plural societies. Both distinguish between immigrant and involuntary minority groups, and attribute differing degrees of academic success to the cultural models…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis