Ethnic Groups in Urban Education

Congalton, A.A. , Status and Prestige in Australia, Melbourne: Cheshire, 1969.

Ravitz, M. , 'The Role of the School in the Urban Setting: Depressed Areas', paper presented at Work Conference on Curriculum and Teaching in Depressed Areas, Teachers College, Columbia University , July, 1962; quoted by Shaw, F. , 'Educating Culturally Deprived Youth in Urban Centers', in Kerber, A. and Bommarito, B. (eds), The Schools and the Urban Crisis, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1965, pp. 67-72.

Tests administered were: the ACER Test. of Speed and Reading, Word Knowledge, and Reading for Meaning (Australion Council for Educational Research, Hawthorn, Victoria). Pupils were drawn from two area secondory schools and six primary State schools.

Show, F., 1965, op. cit., p. 69.

Bernstein, B. , 'A Socio-linguistic Approach to Social Learning', in Gould, J. (ed), Survey of the Social Sciences , Harmondsworth: Penguin Books , 1965, pp. 144-168.

Italics in text.

Day, D.E. , and George, L.Y. , 'Effecting Change in Inner City Schools: Some Reflections', Journal of Negro Educotion, 1970, 39, pp. 4-13.

Lavin, D.E. , The Prediction of Academic Performance: A Thearatical Analysis and Review of Research, New York, 1965.

Jensen, A.R. , 'Learning Ability in Retarded, Average and Gifted Children', Merrill Palmer Quarterly, 1963, 9, pp. 123-140; quoted in Bereiter, C. , and Engelmann, S. , Teaching Disadvantaged Children in the Preschool, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1966.

Bereiter, C., and Engelmonn, S., 1966, op. cit., p. 5.

Jensen, A. R., 1963, op. cit., p. 20.

Show, F., 1965, op. cit., p. 70.

Compulsory school attendance in New South Wales is to fifteen years of age.

Day, D.E. 'Educating the Disadvantaged; A Beginning', Educotionol Leadership , 1967, 25, pp. 132-135; quoted in Day, D.E. , and George, L.Y. , op. cit., p. 4.

Deutsch, M. , 'The Role of Social Class in Language Development and Cognition', American Journal of Orthopsychictry, 1965, 25, pp. 78-88.

Bereiter & Engelmann, op. cit., p. 5.

Golderg, M.L. , 'Adapting Teacher Style to Pupil Differences' (abstract, May, 1963); reprinted in Kerber & Bommarito, oo. cit., pp. 230-238.

'Immigrant' refers to those pupils with immigrant parents who are horn here or who have come to Australia under five years of age, and for whom English is a second language.

The syllabus and the organization of 'slow learner' classes in secondary schools is not academically oriented. These classes generally leod to the terminating of education when the pupil reaches the legal school-leaving age.

The research was mode possible by the grant from the then Social Science Research Council, now the Academy of the Sociol Sciences in Australia (1969-1971).

Teachers were asked to record their estimate of the pupils' potential on a four-point scale constructed by the author.

Goldman, R. , 'Some Notes on Teacher Education and Migrants', paper presented of meeting of the Immigration Advisory Council Committee on Migrant Education, Adolaide. June, 1972 .

Day, D. E. and George, L. Y., 1970, op. cit., p. 4.