Achievement of inner-city children in Bristol can be improved if schools take advantage of the knowledge and experience of parents and community, and their resilience.
Tag: Education
Black children in Bristol are disproportionately affected by poor educational institutions – Cllr Jama
Watch the debate: Educational segregation in #Bristol is a pressing issue. Bristol city is ‘sleep walking into crisis’ says Cllr … More
Too many Old Etonians in No 10, declares Michael Gove
Michael Gove: Domination of one school in public life is ‘ridiculous’ – Too many Old Etonians in No 10
Parent-Teacher Collaboration: In It Together
Over the last three to five years, Bristol schools have taken productive steps to improve the engagement of parents although they ought to do more if they are to enable pupils remove hurdles to their advancement. The current engagement strategies, for example, should be looked at thoroughly and further developed to make schools be more democratically governed, but equally more responsive to the diverse needs of the local community.
Educational inequalities will deepen with apprentice style hiring and firing policies in schools
If the Government is committed to tackling educational inequalities in our schools, why the Education Secretary Michael Gove made recruitment of good teachers for inner city schools even harder than it already is?
King of the Endz
My mum says I am a dealer
My boys say I am the man
Mum says I am a disgrace
Boys say I am the boss
My mum says study
But my teacher knows I am not going anywhere.
My mum shouts change
But what other choices are there?
Press Release: Educational Debate on Somali Pupils in Bristol
On Saturday 20 March, the Somali Educators’ Forum, supported by the Somali Resource Centre, hosts a debate to discuss the roots of Somali pupil underachievement in Bristol schools.
