The Educational Performance of Immigrant Children

S. Wiles , 'Children from Overseas', Institute of Race Relations Newsletter(February, 1968 ) pp. 81-7.

Approximately 5 per cent of the immigrant children in the Little et al. study were said to have 'little or no English'. Cf. the report by Dr. R. P. Wofinden ('Immigrant Children in Bristol', Nursing Times, 23 February 1968 ) that in 57 immigrant children specially studied attending primary schools where there were 35 per cent or more immigrant children, 5.26 per cent had 'language difficulties severe enough to interfere with their education'.

See, for example, J.W.B. Douglas' The Home and the School: A Study of Ability and Attainment in the Primary Sclrool (London, MacGibbon and Kee, 1964).

B. Bernstein , 'Social Class and Linguistic Development', in A. Halsey, J. Floud and C. Anderson (eds.), Editeatioit, Economy and Society (New York, Free Press), p. 288.

F. Milson , Operation Integration Two: The Coloured Teenager in Birmingham (Birmingham, Westhill College Occasional Paper No. 13, 1966).

D. Beetham , Immigrant School Leavas and the Youth Employment Service In Birmingham (London, Institute of Race Relations, 1967).

L. Datta , 'Draw-a-Person Test as a Measure of Intelligence in Preschool Children from Very Low Income Families', Journal of Consulting Psychology (31, 1967), pp. 626-630.

C. Bagley , Ph.D. Thesis, University of London, 1968.

W. Cavencss , H. Merritt , G. Gallup and E. Ruby , 'A Survey of Public Attitudes Toward Epilepsy in 1964', Epilepsia (6, 1965), pp. 75-86.

R. Rosenthal and L. Jacobsen , 'Teacher Expectations of the Disadvantaged' , Scientific American (218, April 1968), pp. 19-23.

E.g., the study by Dr. S. Baratz showing higher levels of anxiety in Negro students when tested by a white examiner, in comparison with those groups tested by a Negro examiner in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (7, 1967), p. 194.

E.g., Bernstein, op. cit.

D. Swift , 'Educational Psychology, Sociology and the Environment: A Controversy at Cross Purposes', British Journal of Sociology (16, 1965), pp. 224-350.