Assessing and Understanding the Educational Progress of Children from Different Ethnic Groups
本文探讨了不同族裔群体在教育成就和进展上的差异，指出官方统计忽视性别差异，并批评仅用社会经济劣势解释差异的局限性，强调纵向数据和多层级模型的价值。
Differences between ethnic groups in educational attainment and progress are considered. Official statistics do not give a clear picture of the situation, and are particularly deficient in ignoring sex differences within ethnic groups. Explanatory models for understanding differences are discussed and attention is drawn to the limitations of approaches which attempt to account for ethnic group differences by socio-economic disadvantage. The value of longitudinal data and the advantages of a multilevel model approach are both emphasised. An important theme of the paper is that technical statistical issues cannot be separated from substantive educational issues, or from political issues, or from the evidence on racism in British society.