The residential school system acted as a method to reshape the future of the Aboriginal culture. " Since the earliest contact between Canada's Aboriginal people and European settlers there has been conflicting values concerning family relationships and child-rearing practices. The colonists under European control agreed it would benefit all if Aboriginal people conformed to their values and beliefs. ... There was no better way to promote assimilation then European education, which became the backbone of the policy to ensure it. ... The residential schooling has been devastating in r...

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It will also elaborate on its link to the Virginia State of Assessment Plan in local colleges, and how it ranks within different cultures and genders. ... Among high school seniors who entered college in the fall of 1999, the African Americans' averages scores on the SAT I verbal section was 93 points below European American students' average scores. On the average, African Americans scored 106 points less than European Americans on the math portion, (Jencks and Phillips, p.3). ... These racial groups include African Americans, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Native Americans...

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They claim that benefits of bilingual education include appreciation for cultures. Because language is most fundamental part of any culture, allowing bilingual education is allowing "the field in which language meets language, culture meets culture, values meet values." ... The critics claim that the US is a nation built upon immigration and diversity of races makes it impossible to embrace "so-called "common culture" and "common language."" ... Also, full literacy in English language may not be necessary for productive members of our society since immigrants from Asia and Europe are succeedin...

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(Giddens, 1993) Inequality within schools is not disputable among most sociologists, the consequence of social origins; ethnicity, culture and gender all have significant values on the attainment in schools. ...

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Black and White Test Score Comparison African Americans currently score lower than European Americans on vocabulary, reading, and mathematics test, as well as on tests that claim to measure scholastic aptitude and intelligence. ...

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