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CONTRIBUTE TO LOW
SCHOOL PERFORMANCE ON
IMMIGRANT STUDENTS
BY:
DENISE MARIA
LAURA PANTOJA
• John O. Ogbu and Hebert from the departament of
Antropology and school of education of Berkley university
realize a study of school performance in minorities.
• Ogbu studied minority education for 28 years. the first 15
years he studied school performance between minorities
and the dominant group. He contributed the differences
how they were treated in society and responses to school
based on that treatement.
• In the early 80's he focus in school performance within
minority groups
OGBU CLASSIFIED THE MINORITY
GROUPS IN TO THREE GROUPS:
–Autonomous
–Voluntary minority(immigrants)
– Involuntary immigrants (non-immigrants)
AUTONOMOUS GROUP:
• He referred to a small group of people that are
different in religion practice, race, ethnicity and
language and that might suffer from
discrimination but are not dominated or
oppressed and their achievemet were the same
as the dominant group.
THE TWO MINORITY CLASSIFICATIONS
OF IMMIGRANTS ARE:
– voluntary (immigrant) people from Africa, China, India, Japan,
Korea, Central and South America, The Caribbean and Mexico.
– involuntary(non-immigrant) people from Alaska Natives, Native
Americans, Mexican Americans who were conquered, African
Americans that were brought as slaves, Puerto Ricans and
Native Hawaiians who were colonized.
THESE TWO MINORITY GROUPS DIFFER IN
SCHOOL PERFORMANCE BY TWO FACTORS:
– 7% of children in ESL classes were absent the same as children in the low income
and homeless rank.