From Headcount to Action: The Analysis of the Progress of Ethnic Minority Pupils in Schools

Abstract

The prime task of a school is to enable its pupils to achieve well in the full range of ways possible. To establish whether a school is doing as well as it should, examine how pupils are actually faring in as many aspects as possible of their development. In a world in which various ethnic groups have such differentiated positions of status, power, and educational success, this scrutiny has to be directed especially at any measurable differences between pupils of different ethnic backgrounds.