Young Children at School in the Inner City

academic activities Afro-Caribbean origin anti-racism asked associations attainment and progress average behaviour problems black and white black boys black children black girls black parents Caribbean Chapter child children of Afro-Caribbean children's attainment children's progress class teachers classroom correlation curriculum coverage end of nursery ethnic group evidence example explained factors families group and sex group sex helping their children home variables imaginative role play interaction interviewed junior school middle infants middle-infant mothers number of children O-level observations play playtime pleasure to teach pre-school progress in reading project schools proportion racism reading and writing reception teachers related to children's related to progress S.D. units sample school differences sex differences skills social class standard deviation statistically significant structural equation modelling subtests Table tasks taught teacher expectations teased test scores top infants top-infant underachievement W.P.P.S.I. vocabulary West Indian whilst white boys white children white girls white parents