Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Understanding minority education : framing the issues / Evelyn Jacob and Cathie Jordan -- Understanding educational anthropology : concepts and methods / Evelyn Jacob and Cathie Jordan -- Cultural continuity and discontinuity. Transformation and school success : the politics and culture of educational achievement / Frederick Erickson -- Explaining school failure, producing school success : two cases / Lynn A. Vogt, Cathie Jordan, and Roland G. Tharp -- Change as the goal of educational research / Luis C. Moll and Stephen Diaz -- Societal forces and minority responses. Frameworks-- variability in minority school performance : a problem in search of an explanation / John U. Ogbu -- The school performance of immigrant minorities : a comparative view / Margaret A. Gibson -- "Becoming somebody" : Central American immigrants in U.S. inner-city schools / Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco.

(cont.) Additional and alternative perspectives. Building our house from the rubbish tree : minority-directed education / Barbara Harrison -- Constructing cultural differences and educational achievement in schools / Margaret A. Eisenhart and M. Elizabeth Graue -- Resistance and compliance in minority classrooms / John D'Amato -- Failure's failure / David Smith ... [et al.] -- Policy and practice considerations. Ethnography and policy : a catalytic combination for change / David M. Fetterman -- Contexts of education, contexts of application : anthropological perspectives and educational practice / Cathie Jordan and Evelyn Jacob.