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McDermott, Ray; Goldman, Shelley; Varenne, Herve – Educational Researcher, 2006
Culturally and educationally, the United States specializes in the production of kinds of persons described first by ethnic, racial, and linguistic lines and second by supposed mental abilities. Overlaps between the two systems of classification are frequent, systematically haphazard, and often deleterious. An examination of classrooms around the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Learning Disabilities, Sociolinguistics, Ethnicity