Parents of young children are often told to read aloud to them every day, but it may not be as simple as that. The best books for a child’s age include those with the right vocabulary and sentence structures. Chapter books also provide more opportunities for discussion than do picture books or illustrated stories. When …
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MEGA List of Free Math Resources For Home Educators! The lockdown has had parents all across the globe doing something they never thought they would be doing, homeschooling. Since the very beginning, demand has grown for distance learning educational material. The great thing is, we all have the internet. The problem is, it is the …
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How British Schools Are Teaching Black Children Self-Hate There have been some shocking instances over the past few years regarding the discrimination and racism that black and mixed-race children have been facing in schools across the UK. There is this case… ‘Black pupils are being wrongly excluded over their hair‘. Then there is this… ‘Pupil …
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If your primary focus is for your black child to thrive in the west but still retain a sense of self and be an asset to their community and future generations. Then simply striving for more black representation is not going to cut it. We would have to improve the overall quality of education we afford our black children by introducing an Afrocentric curriculum alongside their British, National curriculum.
Black or African history is one very expansive area that is, sadly, left out of school curricula, or worse, mistold. For years, the only black history in schools worldwide, including Africa, focussed on slavery, colonialism, and the aid afforded to blacks home and abroad. These are lessons that only encourage inferiority and a distorted perception …
Beloved, London 2 children: Eli 10, Rue 7 I felt it impressed on my heart two years ago, to take my son, Eli, out of school. He was not doing very well. He was getting very angry and very frustrated, he wasn’t really learning anything. Also, he was never wasnt given any homework. I watched …
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Enough is enough. For many back parents, it’s a hopeless struggle to protect their children inside a public school system historically designed to limit the black child’s scholarly ambitions through a dangerous combination of racism, disengagement and social exclusion.
Approaching the matter of teaching black history to your preschooler doesn’t need to be any different from teaching them about math or science or any other subject – it just needs to be fun and relatable. As your child is still quite young and has many academic years ahead of them, you also do not …
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The children of today are using technology like never before; many people seek to rectify that and go ‘back to basics’. While of course limiting screen-time is a good thing for the underdevloped mind, computers are not going away any time soon – in fact with all the techonological advanements being made in finance, medical …
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