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Direct linkGee, James Paul – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2014
Why do children from some minority groups and children living in poverty do poorly in school when compared to white middle-class children? Researchers have offered a large number of different answers to this question. One of the most popular answers has been based on the notion of "decontextualized language." This article argues that…
Descriptors: Poverty, Minority Group Children, Achievement Gap, Middle Class
