Black schooling 'a class issue'
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Actor and writer Kwame Kwei-Armah says a focus on race is not always the best way to tackle underachievement by black pupils in schools.
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The BBC's Mike Baker looks at Conservative pledges to improve discipline in schools and finds no easy solutions.
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After white parents complained about school crowding, authorities drew up a rezoning plan. The results: almost all the students required to move were black.
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Bill Cosby is getting behind efforts to improve education.
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A London school is told it must close despite making good progress and coming out of special measures.
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Robert's Story; the Problem of Poverty in America  Robert is in the third grade. He likes school, and he's pretty good at it. He started reading chapter books this year, and he likes that. He wishes he could go to school today, but he can't. He lives with his mom in their 1985 Mazda GLC. They get in trouble if they  stay in one place for more than a few nights, so he can't take the school bus. This morning Robert's mom can't take him to school. She's too busy. This happens to Robert a lot. It makes him really sad. He remembers when he was in first grade he and his mom lived in an apartment. It wasn't a nice apartment, it kinda smelled funny, the carpet was a weird orange color,  and the people who lived downstairs scared him. He didn't like it there, but now he just wishes they could go back. He doesn't understand why he and his mom have to be poor. One time he asked his mom, and she started crying. He doesn't ask her questions like that anymore.    This is not an uncommon story. In 2003 there were 35.9 million people living below the poverty line in the United States of America, 1.3 million more than in 2002.  In addition, there were millions living within the penumbra that surrounds 'official poverty', with incomes that fell above the poverty line but bellow the threshold for a decent standard of living.
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The largest school board in Canada plans to launch a black-focused school to tackle the problem of high dropout rates.
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A state where charter schools have been growing fast - and running into troubles - is now debating a new approach
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A review of primary education in England says the system is "preoccupied" with testing and national standards.
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Schools should focus less on multi-culturalism and more on social cohesion to raise standards, a specialist says.
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BBC education correspondent Mike Baker considers the issue of school admissions.
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Parents and activists voice concerns over Carmarthenshire's  Â£110m education shake-up.
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School segregation saga has dragged the state into a confrontation with its segregationist past that illuminates the uneasy race relations of its present.
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Almost all the children who could not find elementary school places in a Dublin suburb this year were black, the government said Monday, highlighting Ireland's problems integrating its increasingly diverse population.
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An education conference in London is again debating the issue of underachievement by black pupils - and encouraging them to aim higher.
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High-priced tutors and college counselors have entered into the debate over whether there is a crisis in the education of boys.
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A watchdog warns many vulnerable children may not be receiving suitable or cost-effective education.