Bernstein's Argument: Effective In Explaining Racial-Ethnic Inequality In Academic Achievement

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4 pages in length. Basil Bernstein's argument provides a fundamental understanding why certain races have historically had great difficultly academically assimilating into white schools. The extent to which Bernstein's argument addresses how variable aspects of speech are derived from cultural background is both grand and far-reaching; that students of different ethnic heritage have learned speech codes cultivated from their ancestors speaks to the prevalence of linguistic misinterpretation in a classroom where the student has not been taught to understand the common language. Bibliography lists 4 sources.


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