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Culture and Consequences: The Canaries in the Coal Mine
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Murphy, Sandra – Research in the Teaching of English, 2007
The persistent gap between the performance of mainstream students and racially and linguistically diverse students--for example, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans--on standardized tests may well signal problems with procedures for the development and use of standardized tests in general, and for their use with culturally…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Standardized Tests, Test Validity, Prior Learning