Educators may believe that students do better when students into these groups because they are with students of similar ability and may have access to more individual attention from teachers, conflict theorists feel that this process leads to self-fulfilling prophecies in which students live up (or down) to teacher and societal expectations.

In the introduction of becoming mexican american, sanchez draws from stuart hall's notion of cultural identity (pg. 12-13). hall asserts that identities are enmeshed in "becoming and of being." they are subjected to the elements and context of history. explain what you think he means by the idea of becoming and being and explain how context fits into comprehending the american concept of manifest destiny.