The term ethnography refers to both the work of studying a culture and the end product of the research. Ethnography has moved from anthropology to other disciplines. including education, where it has become a valuable tool in understanding the process of schooling. Ethnographic research on immigrant children and other minority populations in U.S. schools, for example, has helped educators understand these students' cultural backgrounds and the discontinuity that may exist between family and school culture, which affects the success or failure of these diverse students in schools. Spindler and Hammond (2000) write that ethnography "can help teachers separate their personal cultural values from those of their students in order to see both themselves and their students more clearly" and to understand the voices of the "other" (p. 44).