[eal-bilingual] White UK Heritage/underachieveing black children

Many black African boys are from  bilingual / multilingual heritages -
though  they may need more careful interview questioning to establish
this 
eg
If you aren't speaking English at home, what do you speak ?
What do your parents speak when they don't want you to understand ?
What do you speak to your grandmother ?
Etc...
Experience has been that much 'focussed work' with them has tended to
confirm a group anti achievement or behaviour ethos. 

The best achievement we get with both such groups seems to be  when they
are working in effectively gender race and ability mixed classes. 

Is there any evidence for this ? 

Luke. Bazeley

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In our school the two groups who are underachieving are white UK
heritage boys and back african (mainly boys)> Does anyone have any good
ideas about dealing with this?

Many thanks

Janice Rolnick
SENCO/AST
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