Teacher's Alley

The Deficit Theory attempts to explain why certain disadvantaged students show a high failure rate in school. These students coming from socio-economically disadvantaged homes, show a lack of verbal stimulation and entered school without the necessary linguistic resources for success. These children, labelled verbally deficient may actually be highly competent language user, however they do not find themselves in situations where they are able to demonstrate their specific language competence. When a child is in the presence of an authority figure of a different social class, he or she tends to be more introverted. An important consideration for those working with high school students is to realize that one vernacular (language) is not inherently superior to another. Such understanding will enhance a students' desire to develop during there years of critical language growth. In an attempt to explain deficiencies in lower socioeconomic students’ success rate, some researc...

Download Bullock Report full text here :  Bullock Report 1975 Background Alan Bullock was born in Wiltshire on 13 December 1914, the son of a gardener and a maid. He first came to public notice in 1952 with his biography Hitler, A Study In Tyranny. He went on to write a three volume biography of Ernest Bevin, the postwar Labour foreign secretary, whom he much admired. In 1960 he became founding master of St Catherine's college in Oxford; he was a trustee of The Observer from 1957 to 1969 and the paper's director from 1977 to 1981; in 1969 was appointed Oxford's first full-time vice chancellor; and he was chair of the Tate gallery from 1973 to 1980. He was made a life peer in 1976 and continued lecturing until 1997. He died on 2 February 2004. (Lord Bullock: obituary The Guardian 3 February 2004). The Committee of Enquiry, appointed in 1972 by Margaret Thatcher, Secretary of State for Education in Ted Heath...