Alphabetical order and ethnic segregation
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Anonymous
| I don't know what you can do about this in your own school if their main intent is to not break up cohorts, but I think this would actually make a great study for an academic (I am one, but not in education or sociology). This is exactly the kind of thing that would be interesting and beneficial to study: how does alphabetization and the resulting concentration of certain ethnolinguistic last names and potentially cultures impact students individually, and as a cohort? I bet if you search you might even find studies on this (there are definitely ones about how kids with A names get different grades than kids with Z names in online course management platform grading because of teacher mood or the impact of first vs. last look). If you do, you could bring these studies to the administration. |
Anonymous
| Lotta Ali start and Lees |