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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Page 83
... chil- dren a chance of what they hoped was a decent education , and who found that the school system was not about to change to incorporate their chil- dren successfully . The ESN issue had profound symbolic significance for the Black ...
... chil- dren a chance of what they hoped was a decent education , and who found that the school system was not about to change to incorporate their chil- dren successfully . The ESN issue had profound symbolic significance for the Black ...
Page 105
... chil- dren attend school up to the age of 16 , unless they opt to educate them themselves as more and more are now doing , if we accept that those chil- dren are entitled to an education and that the more dysfunctional their attitudes ...
... chil- dren attend school up to the age of 16 , unless they opt to educate them themselves as more and more are now doing , if we accept that those chil- dren are entitled to an education and that the more dysfunctional their attitudes ...
Page 196
... chil- dren hold their own academically , but when they enter secondary school a gap begins to open up with their peers . Is there something wrong with Black boys , the way they live , their attitudes , or is there something wrong with ...
... chil- dren hold their own academically , but when they enter secondary school a gap begins to open up with their peers . Is there something wrong with Black boys , the way they live , their attitudes , or is there something wrong with ...
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