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How Academic Streaming is failing Black Students in Ontario Schools
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This capstone paper explores academic streaming and how it has historically affected Black students within Ontario secondary schools. This type of streaming occurs when students’ choose a stream or pathway in grade 9, opting for academic, applied or workplace focused courses. The course choices of students at this level have great significance to their academic careers in secondary school and beyond. Historically, Black students in Ontario schools have consistently been overrepresented in lower-level streams (Livingstone, 2017; James & Turner, 2017). This topic will be explored using the Critical Anti-Racist Theory framework (CART) which will center race as the standpoint from which to discuss this issue (Dei & Lordon, 2013). This framework will take into consideration racism, history, power relations and various systems of oppression which will provide a holistic view into the intersecting factors that affect the stream choice and ultimately academic success of Black students in Ontario secondary schools (Dei & Lordon, 2013).
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- 2025-03-17
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- Research Material