ABSTRACT
Educational psychology confronts at least two major problems today. One problem has to do with the sociocultural factors that make schools ineffectual in educating children from certain cultures. The second problem is even more fundamental, for it concerns the relationship between culture and mind. The school achievement gap among ethnic groups, an index of group-based inequality, has led to many attempts at cure, from multicultural educational programs for students and educators to the incorporation of culture-sensitive books and a variety of instructional methods in the curriculum. Educational psychology has played a minor role in the development of the latter and focused more on testing and basic skills approaches in teaching. Educational psychology seems to favor a methodological approach to "culture-related" educational problems that follow in the tradition of post hoc, aptitude-treatment interaction (AT!) research.
