Performance of Minority Students

Much evidence indicates that the performance of minority students in American public schools is not distributed randomly; that is, that membership in a minority group tends to correlate to school performance. Members of some minority groups show significantly greater academic success on average than whites, or the student population as a whole. Members of other minority groups are significantly more likely to struggle in school.

There is no evidence that members of any human population have inherently greater or lesser academic potential than others. Thus, we can presume that the reported differences in academic performance by group reflect in some way the social experience of minority-group membership affects academic performance. This social experience might take several possible forms; it might be concentrated at a family level or the community level. It is in any case an appropriate topic

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Symbolic-Interactionist Perspectives, school performance, symbolic interactionist, conflict theorist, academic performance, media prominence, shared symbols, express themselves, african-american students, elite status, social experience,
Approximate Word count = 668
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page)

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