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Pages 34-38

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... The field lacks a framework for considering factors that predict successful adaptation on behalf of these children, and even for defining "successful" in this context. What characteristics and skills distinguish children who enjoy and fulfill 34
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From page 35...
... First, there is virtually no research available to guide decisions that are being made regarding the treatment of language-minority children in the context of education reform. Pressing issues range from effective means of ensuring language-minority students access to high-quality curriculum content to identifying valid assessment methods for these students.
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From page 36...
... Examination of the interpersonal and scholastic effects on nonminority students of attending culturally mixed schools, of exposure to dual-language instruction, and of learning cooperatively with children who acquire and express their knowledge in differing ways is a very promising direction for research. SAMPLING STRATEGIES FOR STUDYING CULTURE AND SOCIAL CLASS The most long-standing methodological challenge to research on cultural differences in the United States is that of devising sampling strategies that offer greater social-class variability among the cultural groups being
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From page 37...
... Barbara Rogoff, for example, has worked with Guatemalan children who have witnessed the torture and killing of family members. To illustrate the powerful impact that urban violence in the United States can have on young children's ability to concentrate in school, Delia Pompa described the tensions that children feel between the schoolroom focus on learning to read and the neighborhood pressure to learn how to avoid antagonizing gang members.
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... Effective means are also needed to recruit and retain both junior and senior scholars from multiple disciplines and a range of ethnic groups who are motivated to address these research questions. Without attention to these issues of research capacity, it is unlikely that the country will be in any better position in 10 years than it is today to guide sound early educational policy for an increasingly diverse society.
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