Sentences with phrase «likely than white teachers»

Teachers of color are two to three times more likely than white teachers to work in high - poverty, urban schools.

Teacher turnover is increasing, and black teachers are more likely than white teachers to leave their jobs.

These studies suggest that black teachers are powerful role models, particularly for black boys; that they are more likely than white teachers to recognize competence in their black students; and that subjective judgments by teachers play a vital role in determining success at school.

Not exact matches

Recent school safety proposals introduced after Parkland — like potentially arming some teachers and staff — also ignore that students of color, especially black students, are more likely to face discipline and punishment in schools than their white peers, and that many of these disparities could be exacerbated by recent proposals to arm teachers or increase school security.

Additionally, this is an education system that promotes inequality and therefore injustice: Schools in the United States are twice as likely to pair poor and minority students with brand - new teachers and almost four times more likely to suspend black students than white students.

When a student in a Syracuse or Rochester public school walks into a classroom, they are more likely than not to have a white teacher.

The research also finds that black students are 54 percent less likely than white students to be identified as eligible for gifted - education services after adjusting for the students» previous scores on standardized tests, demographic factors, and school and teacher characteristics.

The study found that teachers are more likely to see academic challenges as disabilities when white boys exhibit them than when boys of color exhibit the same difficulties.

Conversely, when case studies portrayed boys with behavioral challenges, teachers were more likely to refer black and Latino boys than white boys for testing.

When teachers read a case study of a boy with academic challenges, meant to suggest learning disabilities, they were more likely to refer white boys than black and Latino boys for testing.

Conversely, teachers are more likely to perceive behavioral challenges as disabilities among boys of color than when white boys have the same behavioral difficulties.

Johnson says minorities who are unhappy in their schools are more likely to leave the profession than white teachers, who are more inclined to transfer to wealthier schools.

When he controlled for student gender, SES, prior achievement, and misbehavior (e.g, suspensions and fights), and for teachers gender, race, years of experience, teaching credential, and education., Cooc found teachers were more likely to believe that white students, rather than minorities, have disabilities.

White teachers were 9 percentage points less likely to expect a black student to earn a college degree than their black colleagues when both teachers were evaluating the same student — on average, 33 percent of black teachers expected the student to finish college, compared to 24 percent of white teacWhite teachers were 9 percentage points less likely to expect a black student to earn a college degree than their black colleagues when both teachers were evaluating the same student — on average, 33 percent of black teachers expected the student to finish college, compared to 24 percent of white teacwhite teachers.

[11] They find black students in North Carolina were less likely to be subject to exclusionary discipline when they had black teachers rather than white teachers, even within the same school.

African - American students are far more likely than their white peers to receive a subpar education, in larger classes taught by unqualified teachers in decaying buildings, according to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Black students taught by white teachers are less likely to be identified for gifted programs than black students taught by black teachers, for example.

On average, a black student with a black teacher in a school where more than two - thirds of the student - body is black is still more likely to experience exclusionary discipline, compared to a black student assigned to a white teacher in a school where black students accounted for less than a third of the student population.

Low - income, African - American, and Hispanic students in the 50 largest districts in Texas are less likely to attend schools with experienced teachers than high - income and white students in those same districts, concludes a report by the Education Trust, a Washington - based nonprofit research and advocacy organization.

Teachers of color also can serve as powerful role models for minority students, who are more likely to live in poor neighborhoods than white students and less likely to know other adults who are college graduates.

And we know that minority teachers are more likely to drop out than white, non-Hispanic teachers.

A study by John Hopkins University found that for a Black student, a Black teacher is 30 % more likely to believe that student will graduate from a four - year college than their white counterpart (Deruy, 2016).

Students of color «are three to four times more likely to attend schools with higher concentrations of first - year teachers than White students.»

But the researchers found that white teachers fired after Katrina were more likely to be hired by charter schools than black teachers were.

In fact they found that black teachers were slightly more likely to return to New Orleans schools than their white peers.

As it stands today, teachers of color are 24 percent more likely to leave the teaching profession than their white counterparts, according to research by Richard Ingersoll, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania who has been studying the issue.

Between 1988 and 2008, teachers of color were 24 percent more likely to leave teaching than their white counterparts, according to Ingersoll's research.

Eighty - three percent of educators in the United States are White and so the likelihood of a teacher teaching students who come from a different background than themselves is highly likely.

The Honoré Center is rooted in the concept that black male teachers may be more effective at teaching young black men, who are more likely to struggle in the classroom and are significantly less likely than their white counterparts to graduate from high school and college.

Although most U.S. teachers are certified, for example, black students are more than four times as likely (PDF) as white students to attend schools where uncertified and unlicensed teachers are concentrated.

When a black student has a black teacher, that teacher is much less likely to see behavioral problems with that student than when the same black student has a white teacher.

Data through 2013 indicate that up to 70 percent of new teachers stay through the five year mark.6 In addition, minority teachers have higher rates of turnover than white teachers — likely contributing to the lack of racial diversity within the teaching workforce.7 8

«When we look at the data, black teachers are actually 30 percent less likely to voluntarily resign than white teachers in Boston.»

A Harvard Education Review study indicates that potential African - American teachers are less likely to be hired than their white counterparts.