Social identity threat refers to the process through which an individual underperforms in some domain due to their concern with confirming a negative stereotype held about their group. Psychological research has identified this as one contributor to the underperformance and underrepresentation of women, Blacks, and Latinos in STEM fields. Over the…

By placing emphasis on equity and social mobility, the current UK education policy for England focuses on narrowing the educational attainment gap between more and less advantaged groups of young people--an approach that has strong parallels in many other Anglophone countries around the world. We argue that these policy and associated practice…

Introduces this theme issue on ethnicity and school performance. Provides an overview of five international case studies from the Netherlands, France, Britain, Israel, and Canada that examine the variability in school performance of ethnic-minority youth in their respective countries. The voluntary/involuntary minority framework proposed by J.…