148 pages
A4
ISBN-10: 1 85856 266 X
ISBN-13: 978 1 85856 266 7
January 2003
Reprinted February 2004

Equality stories is a practical handbook for school-based discussions and for planning, staff training and professional development. The stories are about projects in schools to do with the three R's: recognition, respect and raising achievement. And there are also wider stories about the development of Britain as an inclusive society, recent educational history, and national educational policy.

Originating in one local education authority and the effective projects in its schools funded under the Ethnic Minority Achievement Grant, the book tackles important questions. What are the differnces between EMAG and the funding regime it replaced, Section 11? What new opportunities does it open up? What should be the priorities in general terms, and what should be the guiding principles for choosing between them?
Equality Stories stresses the vital role of headteachers and mainstream staff in relation to EMAG and it seeks to promote respect and admiration for the people whos heroic effort is often unrecognised and unsung - grant-funded teachers themselves, and the children, students, parents and carers with whom they have daily contact.

Robin Richardson, former director of the Runnymede Trust and author or co-author of such distinguished books as Daring to be a Teacher and Inclusive Schools, Inclusive Society, acted as a consultant to the local authority where the projects described took place.
Berenice Miles is an education officer there, with the responsibility for race equality matters, including administration and effective use od EMAG.
Every school, primary and secondary, operating EMAG to benefit its students will find this book essential.

Examples of workshop strategies, such as forming focus groups and choosing relevant issues, seminar topics, and action plans, provide excellent guidelines for any learning community desiring to raise student achievement. Although this project is based in England, educational practitioners from any geographic setting can renew the commitment to promoting equality, diversity, and cohesion within their own learning environments. - Childhood Education.