Sentences with phrase «white teacher force»

«An overwhelmingly White teacher force is working with a majority non-White student population,» Cherng said.

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«Only democrat not taking tons of money from the teachers union which is the largest single lobby to the democrats... if not for Cuomo, thousands of children of color and white middle class kids would have been forced out of the charter schools their parents fought hard to get their kids into,» she wrote.

The authors did not find support for another possible outcome suggested in the academic literature: that black students are more likely to be recommended for gifted programs by both black and white teachers when those teachers are part of a racially diverse teaching force.

There's a growing demographic divide between America's predominantly white teaching force and an increasingly diverse student body, and the proportion of women teachers continues to rise.

The largest drop took place in the District, where between 2003 and 2011, the portion of the D.C. teaching force that was white more than doubled from 16 percent to 39 percent while the share of teachers who were black shrank from 77 percent to 49 percent.

We don't know if a teacher left a school voluntarily or because they were forced out, but what we do know is that when exiting teachers were replaced they were replaced with teachers who were paid less, had less experience, and were more likely to be white and from out of state.»

In this important read, she goes beyond the well - researched argument that hiring teachers of color improves education for kids of color, to argue that a more diverse teaching force will positively impact the worldviews of white kids.

Teacher diversity also remains an issue; currently 82 percent of the teaching force is white.

Take for example this recent blog post about teacher diversity: Why we should diversify the overwhelmingly white U.S. teaching force — and how.

In fact, according to recent figures, white educators make up 82 percent of the teaching force, while black teachers make up only 7 percent (U.S. Department of Education, 2016).

«It's going to force the managers in our schools to make hard decisions about how to retain our best teachers, and in that rare case, when someone can not get their job done, whether to let them go,» White said.