Inquiry Project - Random Questions

In my mind there are many questions on different topics about Inner City Education that interest me. Therefore it's been quite hard to pick just one topic, but after brainstorming random questions I noticed a few of them sort of belonged to one topic. The following are my still-somewhat-random questions:

• How can we narrow the culture gap?
• "White Model" - "Culture Capital" (Fruchter, Urban Schools Public Will pg. 28)
• What are those cultural differences that reflect problems in schools?
• Is discipline at Black and Latino homes more relaxed than in White and Asian families?
• Why is it that a great amount of Black and Latino parents are unable to help their kids with homework or at least encourage them to do well in school?
• Is the previous question related to the idea that they view themselves as too different from the "white model", or perhaps they have low expectations on their own children?
• Or is it related to the fact that they are too busy working (although white parents may be in the same situation)?
• Perhaps they stop helping their children as soon as they surpass their own level of education?
• Being myself from a Latin American country, I am interested in focusing on Latino students and their families. Would this be a positive focus or would I be encouraging segregation by doing so?

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