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The Academic Achievement Gap of Black American Students Vis-à-vis Whites and Asians

Showunmi, V; Mocombe, PC; Tomlin, C; (2017) The Academic Achievement Gap of Black American Students Vis-à-vis Whites and Asians. Annals of Language and Literature , 1 (1) pp. 51-61. Green open access

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Abstract

In response to the academic achievement gap of black American students� vis-�-vis whites and Asians, Paul C. Mocombe developed his Mocombeian Strategy and Reading Room Curriculum, which posit a comprehensive mentoring program of educated black professionals and the restructuring of the linguistic structure of black American inner-city students via phonetic and language arts instructions, as the solutions to resolving the gap. The two approaches are based on Mocombe�s hypothesis that the academic underachievement of black American students, vis-�-vis their white and Asian counterparts, on standardized tests is grounded in what he refers to as �a mismatch of linguistic structure and social class function.� This work explores the theoretical, practical, and pedagogical relationships between Mocombe�s �mismatch of linguistic structure and social class function hypothesis,� The Mocombeian Strategy, and Reading Room Curriculum (published as Mocombe�s Reading Room Series).

Type: Article
Title: The Academic Achievement Gap of Black American Students Vis-à-vis Whites and Asians
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
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Language: English
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10097174
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