S3/E4 How the West Indian Child Is (still) Made Educationally Sub-normal (50 years)

...: with Bernard Coard & Derron Wallace. Guest Hosts: Derron Wallace is an Assistant Professor of Education and Sociology at Brandeis University. Derron is a sociologist of race, ethnicity and education. He specializes in cross-national studies of structural and cultural inequalities in urban schools across global cities, focusing specifically on the experiences of young people of African descent. His current research examines the educational outcomes of Black youth in London and New York City. Bernard Coard taught at his secondary school in Grenada before studying at Brandeis University (USA) and then Sussex University (UK). During the late 1960s and early ‘70s, Bernard ran youth clubs in South East London for children attending seven so-called ESN schools and taught at two others in East London. He subsequently taught at The University of The West Indies and at the Institute of Higher Studies, Netherlands Antilles. In 1971 he published a 50-page book How the West Indian Child Is Made Educationally Sub-normal in the British School System: The Scandal of the Black Child in Schools in Britain. The book explained that British schools had a pervasive bias toward treating white children as normal, which led to black children being labelled as "educationally subnormal". For 20 years, Coard set up and ran the Richmond Hill Prison Education Programme, Grenada (basic literacy to London University postgraduate degrees). He continues to teach at the university level as a guest lecturer.