Booklist

Tell it Like it is: How Our Schools Fail Black Children (Paperback) by Bernard Coard (Contributor), Diane Abbott (Contributor), Benjamin Zephaniah (Contributor), Gary Younge (Contributor), Paul Mackney (Contributor), Terry Eagleton (Contributor), Chris Searle (Contributor), Stella Dadzie (Contributor), Heidi Mirza (Contributor), David Gilborn (Contributor)

34 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 Sub-Normal in the British School System. Not only did he expose the plight of Black children in the education system, he also kick-started the Supplementary Schools System and many of the anti-racist and multi-cultural policies of the 1970s and 80s. Three decades on, our schools are still failing Black children. Tell it Like It Is brings the debate firmly into the 21st century.
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