ABSTRACT
For more than 20 years, I have studied minority education from a comparative or cross-cultural perspective. My research focuses on issues of school or academic achievement, as well as social and economic adaptations of minorities. The study of academic achievement inevitably involves cognitive socialization and cognitive behavior or “intelligence.” This research covers minorities in the United States and in other urban industrial societies, including England, Israel, Japan, and New Zealand. I compare minority groups within the same countries, such as African Americans and Chinese Americans in the United States, and the same minority group in different countries, such as West Indians in Britain, Canada, and the United States; the Burakumin in Japan and the United States. Finally, my study includes examination of the school experience of non-Western peoples attending Western-type schools, such as Africans attending schools established by the French, British, or Americans.
