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Studies of ethnicity and educational attainment have shown that ethnic minorities tend to do less well than other members of the population. The Swann report (Education for All) found that of the different ethnic minority groups it was the African-Caribbean's who were most likely to underachieve in education. This could be due to different factors, from family life and cultural differences to racism within schools. Jensen and Eysenck attempted to explain the underachievement of black …

…that ethnic minorities do underachieve in education compared with white children. It seems apparent that it is a mixture of the different reasons put together that results in this lower achievement. In my opinion it is racism and cultural differences which seem to be the main causes. As the majority of the British population is white it seems inevitable that these factors will have a negative effect on the education of children from ethnic minorities.