Ontario will stop suspending children from junior kindergarten to Grade 3, a practice that has been shown to disproportionately impact Black students. A 2017 study by Carl James, the Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community, and Diaspora at York University’s Faculty of Education, reported Black students were more than twice as likely as other racialized […]
Faculty of Education Professor Carl James led research on streaming back in 2017 and found it disproportionately affected Black students. “The ways in which teachers perceive Black students’ abilities in the context of systemic racism means that we have assumptions about the potential of Black students.”
The Ontario government has announced academic streaming in Grade 9 will be ending. A 2017 study led by Carl James, Professor and Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora, found that Black students were being streamed into the applied stream at significantly higher rates than other students. “Black students were not seen as having the capacity […]
After years of calls from some educators and advocacy groups to end the practice, the Ontario government says it will do away with academic streaming in Grade 9. A 2017 report led by Carl James, Professor and Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community & Diaspora at York University’s Faculty of Education found that Black teens […]
Faculty of Education and the Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora Prof. Carl James was on CBC Radio to discuss what systemic racism can look like in education and to highlight the importance of changing the culture of schooling itself.
People advocating to change the names of municipalities signal how individuals are moving toward not accepting what was previously considered appropriate, according to the Faculty of Education Prof. Carl James.
It’s clear that COVID-19 and racism are a dangerous combination. We need better information about how Indigenous, Black and other racialized people interact with Canadian health-care systems.
Sasha Exeter was out for a walk with her toddler trying to enjoy the beautiful Toronto weather last month when the two were affronted by ugly racist vitriol. It wasn’t the two-year-old’s first encounter with racism, and despite her efforts to protect her, Exeter knows it won’t be the last. Carl James, York University Faculty of Education Professor and Jean […]
Parents are being encouraged to speak to their children about anti-Black racism, police brutality and protests across North America. “People are angry, tired and in pain, and this generation of youth have not seen anti-Black racism at this level before,” said Carl James, York University Faculty of Education Professor and Jean Augustine Chair in Education, […]
By the time babies are three months old, they can distinguish between races, and they prefer faces from their own ethnic group. As toddlers, that preference can start to put down roots in terms of how they understand people’s behaviour. In the early 1990s, Carl James, Professor and Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and […]