Mapping the attainment of Black children in Britain

Race and Class

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 78-91

  Mamon, Saleh ^a  

^a Sutton Race Equality Council   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

1988 Education Act; African Caribbean; GCSE; Schools; Underachievement; YCS

Indexed keywords

EID: 7444239740     PISSN: 03063968     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306396804047727     Document Type: Review

References (27)

1. By Black in this context, researchers and commentators usually include children who are categorised as Black or Black British, African. Caribbean and others of Black descent.
2. Committee of Inquiry into the Education of Children from Ethnic Minority Groups, chairman Lord Swarm, Education for All (London, HMSO, 1985), Cmnd. 9453.
3. Committee of Inquiry into the Education of Children from Ethnic Minority Groups, chairman A. Rampton, West Indian Children in our Schools (London, HMSO, 1981), Cmnd. 8273.
4. DfES, Youth Cohort Study: the activities and experiences of 16 year olds: England and Wales 2002 (SFR/042003, 20 February 2003).
5. S. Demack, D. Drew and M. Grimsley, 'Myths about underachievement: gender, ethnic and social class differences in GCSE results 1988-93', paper presented at the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Queen's University, Belfast, August 1998.
6. S. Demack, D. Drew and M. Grimsley, 'Minding the Gap: ethnic, gender and social class differences in attainment at 16,1988-95', Race, Ethnicity and Education (Vol. 3, no. 2, 2000).
7. Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED), 'Raising the attainment of minority ethnic pupils', (London, OFSTED, 1999), pp. 7-8.
8. D. Gillborn and H. S. Mirza, Educational Inequality: mapping race, class and gender. A synthesis of research evidence (London, OFSTED, 2000), HMI 232.
9. Ibid., pp. 12-15.
10. See, e.g., Sarah Cassidy, Independent (21 February 2003); BBC News 20 February 2003.
11. See, e.g., Sarah Cassidy, Independent (21 February 2003); BBC News 20 February 2003.
12. Note that the YCS data of 2002 reported the GCSE results of 2001.
13. BBC News report (23 January 2001).
14. Demack et al (2000) op. cit., pp. 131-7. Gillborn and Mirza (2000) op. cit., p. 22.
15. Demack et al (2000) op. cit., pp. 131-7. Gillborn and Mirza (2000) op. cit., p. 22.
16. Gillborn and Mirza (2000), op. cit.
17. Demack et al (2000) op. cit., p. 133.
18. S. Warren and D. Gillborn, 'Race equality and education in Birmingham: report commissioned by Birmingham City Council and Birmingham Race Action Partnership' (Birmingham, 2003).
19. For example, two London conferences 'London schools and the Black child', held on 16 March 2002 and 10 May 2003 at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Westminster, London, drew more than 2,000 delegates.
20. J. Hobcraft, 'International and life-course transmission of social exclusion, poverty, family disruption and contact with the police' (London, LSE Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion, 1998), Case Paper 15.
21. J. Blanden, A. Goodman, P. Gregg and S. Machin, 'Changes in intergenerational mobility in Britain' (London, LSE Centre for the Economics of Education, 2002).
22. A. West and A. Hind, 'Secondary school admissions in England: exploring the extent of overt and covert selection' (London, LSE Centre for Educational Research, 2003).
23. DfES, Youth Cohort Study (2003) op. cit., Table D.
24. OFSTED and Audit Commission, 'Report' (London, OFSTED, 2003) HMI 587.
25. D. Gillborn and D. Youdell, Rationing Education: policy, practice, reform and equity (Buckingham, Open University Press, 2000), see chapters 4, 5 and 6.
26. Ibid., chapter 8.
27. DfES, Aiming High: raising the achievement of minority ethnic pupils (Nottingham, DfES Publications, 2003).