Maud Blair, Jill Bourne, Caroline Coffin, Angela Creese et al.
The findings of a 1996 review found that students from some minority ethnic groups, namely, those of African-Caribbean, Bangladeshi and Pakistani origin, have been consistently underachieving in school in relation to their peers. To study the trends of minority underachievement, researchers visited ...
Jill Bourne
1. Introduction Recent years have seen a plethora of legislation on education and consequent changes in assessment practices in England and Wales. However, Bernstein (1990) warns us to ask of any change what has remained unchanged; and in this unchanged context, to ask in whose interests the changes...