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The solution? Return them to their native countries… No white racism there, because no white people…and we all know how well Negro/Caribbean children perform in their natural habitat!
When will we finally see a truthful study that plainly states that Negroes have low I.Q.’s, cannot delay gratification or control their impulses, and show sociopathic character traits?
Education: Black Caribbean children held back by institutional racism in schools, says study
Polly Curtis, education editor
The Guardian, Friday September 5 2008
Black Caribbean pupils are being subjected to institutional racism
in English schools which can dramatically undermine their chances of
academic success, according to a new study.
Researchers have uncovered evidence that teachers are routinely
under-estimating the abilities of some black pupils, suggesting that
assumptions about behavioural problems are overshadowing their
academic talents.
The findings, based on a survey which tracked 15,000 pupils through
their education, add weight to the theory that low achievement among
some black students is made worse because teachers don’t expect them
to succeed.
Black education groups welcomed the evidence, calling for urgent
measures to be taken to stamp out any covert racism in schools. But
other experts said the study was evidence that there needed to be
new efforts to tackle behavioural problems among young black
Caribbean pupils.
The research examined the profile of pupils entered by teachers to
take higher-tier papers in their maths and science tests at 14.
Pupils can only get top marks by sitting these papers, and the tests
influence the range of GCSEs they go on to take.
White pupils were significantly more likely to be entered for the
top tiers than their black Caribbean, Pakistani, black African and
Bangladeshi classmates.
Most of the differences were explained by the pupils’ previous
results or by other factors which might have put them at a
disadvantage, such as the level of education reached by their
mothers, entitlement to free meals, and truancy and exclusion - all
strong predictors of academic success.
But for a significant proportion of Black Caribbean pupils, there
was no academic explanation for them being excluded from the harder
papers.
Dr Steve Strand from Warwick University, the author of the study,
said: “After accounting for all measured factors, the under-
representation is specific to this one ethnic group and indicates
that, all other things being equal, for every three white British
pupils entered for the higher tiers, only two black Caribbean pupils
are entered.”
He concludes that “institutional racism” and low expectations by
teachers explain the missing black Caribbean students from top-tier
exams.
“By ‘institutional racism’ I mean organisational arrangements that
may have disproportionately negative impacts on some ethnic groups,”
he said.
Link to this audio
Steve Strand tells Jon Dennis about his research
He said other research suggests that teachers’ judgment of pupils’
academic ability could be warped by behavioural problems. “It is
widely perceived that black Caribbean pupils are more
confrontational. The question is, how much is real behavioural
problems and how much is a problem between teachers and pupils.
“Teachers might say it is about pupils’ behaviour. Black Caribbean
parents will say it’s teachers prejudicing against their kids.
Others say behavioural issues are a response to low expectations
from teachers … To break the cycle, the best policy lever we have
is with the teachers.”
Strand’s research is based on the Longitudinal Study of Young People
in England, managed by the Department for Children, Schools and
Families. He will present his findings at the British Educational
Research Association’ s annual conference in Edinburgh today.
Beaula McCalla, who runs the Erondu Foundation, for black Caribbean
pupils in Bristol, said: “There is a problem with institutional
racism in schools. It’s about low expectations of pupils.”
However, others questioned the conclusion. Tony Sewell, an education
consultant and columnist for the Voice newspaper, said there is “a
link between behaviour and academic outcome. It doesn’t mean that’s
evidence of institutional racism. It’s evidence that we need to
address properly the complex reasons why black Caribbean pupils
behave badly. We can’t just say it’s white racist teachers.”
A spokesman for the Department for Children, Schools and Families
said: “Since 2003, the percentage increase in the number of black
Caribbean pupils achieving five good GCSEs has been almost double
the national average, meaning that the gap has narrowed by eight
percentage points. But we know there is more to do.”
Blog: Does school testing have a bias against black pupils?
In numbers
A third of the most capable black Caribbean pupils are not entered
to take the hardest papers in tests at 14
Black Caribbean and mixed white-and-black Caribbean children are
excluded at rates three times greater than that for white children
In 2007 44.9% of black Caribbean pupils, and 47.3% of pupils of
mixed white and black Caribbean heritage, achieved 5 or more A*-C
grades, compared to 57.3% nationally
The gap between black Caribbean achievement and the national average
at GCSE has narrowed by eight percentage points in four years
In 2005 there were twice as many black men in prison in the UK than
in universities
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