During the 1960s and 1970s, some educators suggested that students of color and students living in poverty were culturally disadvantaged. The cultural deficit model implied that students’ home cultures were inferior because they failed to prepare students to fit in school. What is the current idea held by educational psychologists with respect to mismatches between students’ home environments and school?

A. Incompatibilities may exist between the students’

home culture and the expectations of the school.

B. Deficits between the home culture and the school can be compensated through special education services.

C. Historically, the gap between the home environment and the school environment is inconsequential.

D. There is an increasing sense that ethnic groups should want to assimilate completely into mainstream American society.