British Bangladeshis are doing astonishingly well at school
Good jobs and household riches remain out of reach
In 1985 two articles about the Bangladeshi population of east London appeared—one in an academic journal, the other in an education report. Both were despondent. Bangladeshi children were “seriously underachieving” at school, said the education study. The academic paper described knots of unemployed men hanging around the streets, and forecast even worse for Bangladeshis as London deindustrialised. Barring a major intervention, the authors wrote, “they will become more marginalised than at present.”
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Another East End success”
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