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Monday, October 09, 2006
Educational conference to provide community-driven solutions for black children
A coalition of African heritage independent educators is hosting a conference that will provide a practical resource for parents to steer their children successfully through the woefully inadequate education system that is failing them.
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Monday, July 03, 2006
How slavery, historical amnesia and imperialist education make teaching race a minefield
Professor Charles Lemert and Dr Mark Christian both based in the USA, were among social science academics who met last week to discuss the dilemmas of teaching race in the 21st century.
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Monday, May 22, 2006
Black academics ready to tear down the racist walls of British universities
The victimisation of a black lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University over her use of pioneering teaching methods has united black academics across the country in her defence and reignited their determination to fight racism in higher education.
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Monday, May 08, 2006
Black school exclusions – How 198 Gallery turns failure into success
School exclusions among black pupils are disproportionately high and disruptive to a child's development. But black communities are fighting back through voluntary projects that put their talents to good use...
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Monday, February 27, 2006
Can black male teachers break the cyle of low achievement in African Caribbean pupils?
Nottingham ranks third from bottom in the education league tables and black kids are at the bottom level of a system that is failing them. So black men are now being asked to rise to the challenge and become teachers to save the next generation.
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Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Can proposed school reforms really deliver black power?
Deborah Gabriel talks to Education Adviser and author Dr Lorna Cork, to director of the Communities Empowerment Network and to a committed parent to discover whether black communities can make the proposed school reforms work to their advantage.
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Monday, November 07, 2005
Black people must join forces to defeat racism and gain quality education for all, writes Bernard Coard 33 years on
Bernard Coard’s 1971 study on how Afro-Caribbean children were labelled as ‘educationally subnormal’, updated from prison, has inspired a new book Tell it Like it Is which seeks to explain why schools are still failing black children.
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