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Student Number: 99003481 Education and Society (UNS202C2) Do Children From Racial Minorities Under-Perform In Education? Deadline: 29.03.04 Word-count: The school system and the performance of pupils within it, has been a focus for much attention, in particular there has been a long standing debate about the under-achievement of black and ethnic minority pupils at school. We need to look at why this group in our society are underperforming at school and how their performance can be improved through schooling. Certain ethnic minority groups have not benefited proportionately from the general increase in educational attainment.1 Bangladeshi, Black and Pakistani pupils in particular achieve less well than others. Many of these children enter the school system with equal ability to white children, but underachieve progressively as they go through the school system. 2 A report commissioned in 2000 for Ofsted, the Government schools inspectorate, concluded that, "inequalities of attainment in GCSE examinations place African-Caribbean, Pakistani and Bangladeshi pupils in...

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