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An Achieve Network resource to support your work in racial equality and diversity.
Evidence suggests that both pupils and teachers continue to have different educational experiences based on their ethnic group. This resource provides ideas for teachers seeking to challenge this inequality. At the heart of it is a major research anthology that brings together research about effective teaching and learning from the GTC’s popular Research of the Month (RoM) resource.
The research anthology is has been brought to practical life through a related set of taster activities to try out in classrooms.
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Bite-size nuggets of research that you can immediately use to develop your practice.
How can ICT be used to help promote race equality and diversity in a largely monocultural school?
Supporting students with English as an additional language (EAL) in a school in Surrey
A Newcastle primary school shows how to engage disabled pupils and parents in their plans to promote equality.
An overview of schools’ duties to promote equality of opportunity and eliminate discrimination, and where to access further information.
Under a new duty established by the Education and Inspections Act 2006, schools need to promote community cohesion.
At our annual Achieve reception, we bring you a keynote speaker with something to say – last year Sharon Foster, TV playwright – and let the audience debate a key theme relating to racial equality and diversity in education.
On 8 November 2007, 38 members of the Achieve Network met to celebrate the completion of two successful Achieve projects: Traveller Education’ and ‘Race Equality and Your School’. They also learned about a new race equality resource, the Achieve Research of the Month anthology.
On the 8 December 2007 over 1,000 delegates attended the fifth annual ‘London schools and the Black Child’ conference. Teachers, parents, local government representatives, central government officials, and community workers met to debate the issue of black pupils’ underachievement in the capital.
One of the core functions of the GTC is to advise the government and others on a range of education matters. Our work on equality issues includes the Disabled Teacher Taskforce, the Race Equality Forum and a project on challenging homophobia in schools.
The DCSF's Equality and Diversity Unit (EDU) has published a workbook to help colleagues conduct initial and full equality impact assessments with the minimum of technical difficulty and with the policy rigour that is required. (Spring 2008)
