Tell it Like it is: How Our Schools Fail Black ChildrenBrian Richardson Thirty four years ago Grenadian scholar Bernard Coard caused a social and political storm by "telling it how it was" in his seminal study, How the West Indian Child is Made Educationally Subnormal in the British School System. The title alone speaks volumes, but Coard's booklet did much more. Not only did it expose the plight of Black children in the British education system but also kick-started many of the anti-racist and multicultural policies of the 1970s and 1980s. Three decades later British schools are still failing Black children. Tell It Like It Is reprints Coard's classic text alongside a series of essays, articles and reflections about race by other scholars and activists and by young people of color that bring the debate about race and education firmly into the twenty-first century. This book will resonate with anyone grappling with these very issues and concerned about the education of Black children in the US. |
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... African - Caribbean boys , in par- ticular , start their schooling at broadly the same level as other pupils , but in the course of their education they fall further and further behind so that in 2003 , for example , roughly 70 percent ...
... African - Caribbean boys , in par- ticular , start their schooling at broadly the same level as other pupils , but in the course of their education they fall further and further behind so that in 2003 , for example , roughly 70 percent ...
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How Our Schools Fail Black Children Brian Richardson. African pupils are generally achieving more highly than African - Caribbean pupils , this is often only marginal . Gaining good GCSEs is the first stage to securing employability and ...
How Our Schools Fail Black Children Brian Richardson. African pupils are generally achieving more highly than African - Caribbean pupils , this is often only marginal . Gaining good GCSEs is the first stage to securing employability and ...
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... African Caribbean Communities , suggested that African Caribbean boys are between four and 15 times more likely to be excluded than their white peers . Depressingly this is even worse than the officially acknowledged figures quoted by a ...
... African Caribbean Communities , suggested that African Caribbean boys are between four and 15 times more likely to be excluded than their white peers . Depressingly this is even worse than the officially acknowledged figures quoted by a ...
Contents
Foreword by Doreen Lawrence9 | 9 |
Editors introduction by Brian Richardson | 17 |
Back in the day Bernard Coards book and its legacy | 25 |
Copyright | |
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academic achievement African African-Caribbean anti-racist Asian attainment behaviour Benjamin Zephaniah Bernard Coard Black boys Black Caribbean Black child Black children Black community Black parents Black pupils Black staff Black students Black teachers Britain British School System challenge chil classroom colleges colour culture curriculum DfES Diane Abbott diversity doll dren education system educational psychologist Educationally Subnormal English ESN schools Ethnic Minority exclusion experience fail GCSE Gillborn Grenada groups ILEA impact inequality institutional racism IQ test issues John La Rose kids labour language large numbers learning Linton Kwesi Johnson Liverpool London multiculturalism National numbers of Black Ofsted organised percent problem programme race equality Race Relations role Saturday School social society Stephen Lawrence stereotyping struggle supplementary schools tackle teacher training teaching things tier tion Trentham underachievement Unite Against Fascism West Indian Child West Indian children young Black youth