Black and Ethnic Minority Achievement in Schools - Strategies and Successful Practice to Tackle Inequality

This eminently timely volume explores successful practice and effective intervention strategies in schools to drive school improvement and close the achievement gap for black and minority ethnic students.

List of contents

PART I
Introduction - Black and ethnic minority educational achievement issues, debates, and policy concerns
1 Introduction: Policy concerns and challenges.
2 The achievement gap: the empirical evidence
3 Barriers to learning
PART II
The experience of raising the achievement of Black and ethnic minority students in schools
4 Success factors in improving leadership and teaching to raise achievement
5 Targeted interventions strategy to raise achievement
6 Strategies and success factors to raise pupils with English as an additional language achievement
PART III
Good practice in parental engagement, use of inclusive curriculum, and school exclusions
7 The experience in parental engagement: teachers, headteachers, parents, and pupils view
8 Inclusive curriculums to raise achievement: teachers and headteachers' perspectives
9 Tackling school exclusions of ethnic minority pupils
PART IV
The international experience in raising the achievement of Black and ethnic minority students
10 The international experience in raising the achievement of black and ethnic minority students
PART V
What are the lessons for those concerned with Black and ethnic minority Achievement?
11 Summary, conclusions, and lessons to raise achievement and tackle inequality
12 Implications for policy and practice

About the author

Feyisa Demie is Honorary Professor at Durham University, UK, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Science (FAcSS).

Summary

This eminently timely volume explores successful practice and effective intervention strategies in schools to drive school improvement and close the achievement gap for black and minority ethnic students.

Product details

• Authors: Feyisa Demie, Feyisa (Durham University Demie, Demie Feyisa
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032813950
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3281395-0
• No. of pages: 242
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Ethnic Studies, EDUCATION / General, Sociology, Medicine, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Multicultural Education, Social Work, Organization & management of education, Secondary Schools, Educational administration and organization, Moral and social purpose of education, Teaching of a specific subject, Multicultural education, Moral & social purpose of education, Educational strategies and policy, Medicine and Nursing