Failing black boys in Britain

Guardian:

Yesterday's forewarning in Education Guardian of a pending permanent underclass of black adult males in Britain is bound to make many people - teachers, community workers, black spokespeople - uncomfortable and angry. The fact that the author of the warning was Trevor Phillips, the black British chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, will not appease them. But it is worth repeating the stark evidence at the core of his argument: three out of four African-Caribbean boys fail to reach the basic threshold of five or more good passes at GCSE. This simply cannot be explained in terms of deprivation alone - nearly half the boys' sisters make the grade, despite growing up in the same house. The problem has become generational. In Mr Phillips's words: "most of my generation came out of school under-qualified and unemployable. So did our sons. And so it seems will our grandsons."There are already twice as many black men in prison as at university."

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