Like me,many students from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds experience education differently thanks to institutional assumptions approximately intelligenceIn 2011 I declined an offer from Cambridge University. nearly six years later Im still asked whether I feel I made the correct choice. With the recent news that black students still struggle to pick up university places, and that a Cambridge student taunted a homeless man by burning a £20 note, or how could my reply be anything but a definitive “yes”. Related: The real reason I rejected Cambridge | Franklyn Addo Widening participation cannot mean teaching young people how to behave 'middle class'Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com