Sentences with phrase «black teachers hold»

But at the same time, black teachers hold black students to a higher standard of behavior than do their white counterparts, the researchers found.

Beyond the socio - economic benefits, Black teachers held the promise of political power, and they would partner with clergymen, businessmen and parents in the community to raise up a generation of African - American youth who knew their history and affirmed a collective narrative about our Blackness: We are intellectual.

Not exact matches

Latino teachers were better perceived across all measures, while students perceived Black teachers (more than their White peers) to hold students to high academic standards and support their efforts, to help them organize content, and to explain ideas clearly and provide feedback.

The singular contribution of the education reform movement has been a moral one, making it unacceptable for schools and teachers to admit to holding any child — particularly low - income, black, and brown children — to lower standards.

Now a new study suggests that race plays a big role in influencing how teachers see their students» potential for academic success, raising questions about whether teachers» biases could be holding back black students and contributing to the nation's yawning achievement gap.

In effect, this technique holds teacher quality constant by comparing the relative performance of white and black students under the same teacher.

Goldsmith (2004) found that Latino and black students held more optimistic, more pro-school beliefs in schools with high numbers of minority students, especially when the school employed many minority teachers.

Research shows that black teachers connect more deeply, hold higher expectations, and provide stronger role models for black children, who make up nearly 90 percent of the city's public school students.

On Saturday, we're holding our sixth black male educator convening, designed to present how educational justice and content expertise are integral ingredients in the building of an effective teacher.

Participants told us that their distinct understanding of hardship, in particular, allows many black teachers to have compassion for students while also holding them to high expectations.

From opposing the expansion of high - quality charter schools and other school choice options, to its opposition to Parent Trigger laws and efforts of Parent Power activists in places such as Connecticut and California, to efforts to eviscerate accountability measures that hold districts and school operators to heel for serving Black and Brown children well, even to their historic disdain for Black families and condoning of Jim Crow discrimination against Black teachers, both unions have proven no better than outright White Supremacists when it comes to addressing the legacies of bigotry in which American public education is the nexus.

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