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In addition to educational issues outlined earlier, questions about the ethnocentric stance of testing and selection procedures, of the school curriculum and of teaching styles have steadily come to the fore in the last two decades. The process has been accelerated by the increasing proportion of ethnic minority schoolchildren born not across the waters but born in the same street or the same hospital as their white peers.
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© 1986 Gajendra K. Verma with Brandon Ashworth
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Verma, G.K., Ashworth, B. (1986). Context of the Research and Early Findings. In: Ethnicity and Educational Achievement in British Schools. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18192-6_5
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