Sentences with phrase «often than white teachers»

A 2005 University of Pennsylvania study by Richard Ingersoll found that teachers of color left the profession 24 percent more often than white teachers.

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«The stark facts remain that BME teachers are under - represented in the teaching profession particularly at the most senior levels, they are paid less than their white counterparts, they experience widespread discrimination when applying for jobs or promotion and often have to endure racist comments and abuse at work.

There are also articles about obstacles to greater progress: a study reveals that teacher expectations impact students» likelihood of completing college and are often lower for black students than for their white counterparts, even after accounting for students» academic and demographic backgrounds; and a look at how allowing laptop use in the classroom actually distracts from student learning.

Public school teachers do have lower unemployment rates than other white - collar professionals, lower even than private school teachers, who lose their jobs almost twice as often.

One experimental study in 2014 by Anne Gregory and colleagues found that teachers in the MTP program suspended students less often than teachers in the control group, and when suspensions did occur, MTP teachers had equal suspension rates for African American and white students.

Similarly, studies based on observations from actual classrooms often find that black students with white teachers receive less attention, are praised less, and are scolded more often than their white counterparts.

Black teachers told researchers that superiors, coworkers, and customers — in this case, parents — often viewed them as less competent than their white peers.

Even now, teachers in New Orleans charter schools tend to be younger and more often white than they used to be.